<?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 human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher  Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher  Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,   And hears them never pause, but pass and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome of the investigation and he has agreed to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you turn around, you see another kid you've never seen before riding on a sidewalk. We need a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you turn around, you see another kid you've never seen before riding on a sidewalk. We need a place for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  Can make the fool of; that they made before:   In fact I must not lead the life I did do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job in the second half to get out and pressure them and not let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job in the second half to get out and pressure them and not let them get into a rhythm and knocking the ball around in the midfield, which they like to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. He's just stronger. You take that whole group of guys and the seasons they all had last year, and they just took all that confidence into this year. Add Mark Mulder to that mix and there are five guys who can win every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back home. It's also an opportunity to see first hand the places they've served and continue to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's basically to get the kids back from spring break and allow them to get the rust off. They also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's basically to get the kids back from spring break and allow them to get the rust off. They also get to play some good competition before the season winds down before the state playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? (when asked about his rapport with wide receiver Jerry Rice)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14106]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,   In all the ways you can,    As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to repair asphalt rather than concrete roads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27400]]></link><description><![CDATA[True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item></channel></rss>