<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me I had to snap the ball back to him every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good team, a team that is going to come in here and give us a good fight. They beat us in this tournament every year. They seem to have our numbers, so we certainly should not have come in here looking past them for any reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a quantitative difference between all men who are in ecclesiastical structures or who use theological language. I do not mean that we should not have open dialogue with men; my words and practice emphasize that I believe love demands it. But I do mean that we should not give the impression in our practice that, just because they are expressed in traditional Christian terminology, all religious concepts are on a graduated, quantitative spectrum -- that, in regard to central doctrine, no chasm exists between right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no point in staying around when you can get a bike ride in at the rink. Then if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no point in staying around when you can get a bike ride in at the rink. Then if we don't fly out until tomorrow we'll not have gone 48 hours without moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us,  Here's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us,  Here's a health to all those that love them that love those   That love them that love those that love us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby boomers took a very different approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all across the trees    In yellow like Chinese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14123]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38868]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512]]></link><description><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185</guid></item></channel></rss>