<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38109]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66758]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. Our freshmen have shown a lot of poise, but we lost two valuable guys to injury in the beginning of the year and you just can't replace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20452]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en France; il n'y a qu'un Francais de plus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this just made much more sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61331]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to the misty main.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58694]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,   Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just going to do the things I've been doing, that's working hard and working on preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item></channel></rss>