<?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[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools of the trade]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every Christian who takes the time to think seriously about his faith, does so too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.  Blood stuffed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13193]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.  Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food,   And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help." -Robert H. Schullder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is justice for the unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is justice for the unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football well; this is an athletic team. We just have to keep working hard in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when you're not around is much more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome the atrocities of pain and terrorism,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to take any chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to take any chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just trying to encourage him and talk to him about what he learned and some of the positives that should have been gained here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were too nervous,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54839</guid></item></channel></rss>