<?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[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and story   Long may it wave, old glory    The flag that has never known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Bright portals of the sky, Emboss'd with sparkling stars, Doors of eternity, With diamantine bars, Your arras rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7445]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Bright portals of the sky, Emboss'd with sparkling stars, Doors of eternity, With diamantine bars, Your arras rich uphold, Loose all your bolts and springs, Ope wide your leaves of gold, That in your roofs may come the King of Kings. O well-spring of this All! Thy Father's image vive; Word, that from nought did call What is, doth reason, live; The soul's eternal food, Earth's joy, delight of heaven; All truth, love, beauty, good: To thee, to thee be praises ever given! O glory of the heaven! O sole delight of earth! To thee all power be given, God's uncreated birth! Of mankind lover true, Indearer of his wrong, Who doth the world renew, Still be thou our salvation and our song!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports teams come for dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50049</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[Huzzaed out of my seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huzzaed out of my seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28616]]></link><description><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30327]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not typical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4618]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9300]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25981]]></link><description><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do to others what you would have them do to you."The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do to others what you would have them do to you."The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines were variations on this theme. - Matthew 7:12.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability to draw the maps themselves they can carve out districts that are very precisely drawn to favor their future political interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart   Come never back again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12911</guid></item></channel></rss>