<?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 spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  Covetousness, pride, and envy are not three different things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  Covetousness, pride, and envy are not three different things, but only three different names for the restless workings of one and the same will or desire. Wrath, which is a fourth birth from these three, can have no existence till one or all of these three are contradicted, or have something done to them that is contrary to their will. These four properties generate their own torment. They have no outward cause, nor any inward power of altering themselves. And therefore all self or nature must be in this state until some supernatural good comes into it, or gets a birth in it. Whilst man indeed lives among the vanities of time, his covetousness, envy, pride, and wrath may be in a tolerable state, may hold him to a mixture of peace and trouble; they may have at times their gratifications as well as their torments. But when death has put an end to the vanity of all earthly cheats, the soul that is not born again of the Supernatural Word and Spirit of God, must find itself unavoidably devoured and shut up in its own insatiable, unchangeable, self-tormenting covetousness, envy, pride, and wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38539]]></link><description><![CDATA[In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot of public dollars being spent to have all these people sitting around going through a pre-app. Some people come in and don't have a clue what they want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey with people who play the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19965]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who works his land will have abundant food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who works his land will have abundant food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore,  Replete with strange hermetic powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore,  Replete with strange hermetic powder   That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296</guid></item></channel></rss>