<?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 law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a great team effort. We really played smart and guys stepped up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a great team effort. We really played smart and guys stepped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1748]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16406]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jurors do not have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29661]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jurors do not have to unanimously agree on one] corrupt persuader ... acted knowingly and with corrupt intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.  When the splendour of your story   Builds the halo of its glory,    'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings     And diadem the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has gotten away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt everything was under my control. It's an unforgettable match and an unforgettable day. This has been a spectacular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt everything was under my control. It's an unforgettable match and an unforgettable day. This has been a spectacular year for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56579]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63253</guid></item></channel></rss>