<?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[What is history but a fable agreed upon? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is history but a fable agreed upon?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you want to go, we will make sure you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you want to go, we will make sure you get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener or of Wetter.    Dip a spoonful out     And mind you don't get groggy,      Pour it in the lake       Of Winnipissiogie.        Stir the mixture well         Lest it prove inferior,          Then put half a drop           Into Lake Superior.            Every other day             Take a drop in water,              You'll be better soon               Or at least you oughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our role is to make farmers as efficient as we can, to sell them the right product to make them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our role is to make farmers as efficient as we can, to sell them the right product to make them the most amount of money. That's our number one job. What it all boils down to is what gives you the best bang for your buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,   Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[150,000 of our fellow countrymen are in prison in the home country, because they have declared themselves against this fratricidal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38534]]></link><description><![CDATA[150,000 of our fellow countrymen are in prison in the home country, because they have declared themselves against this fratricidal war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62068]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item></channel></rss>