<?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[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone is involved in the trade of selling and buying firearms, they have to obtain a federal firearms license. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone is involved in the trade of selling and buying firearms, they have to obtain a federal firearms license. That is the law of the land today, so to say that there's a loophole is disingenuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39291]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power of attorney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35134]]></link><description><![CDATA[A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the issue has to do with land, which is our land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29883]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn’t it be easier just to be outdated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure off me. Obviously the run game helps the pass. Nothing's changed in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31109]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and paths in parks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to break all previous spending and fundraising records. It will break the record for the single initiative, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to break all previous spending and fundraising records. It will break the record for the single initiative, and it will break the record for overall spending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung   With feigning voice verses of feigning love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18205]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52049</guid></item></channel></rss>