<?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[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ought to just say what it is -- it's a fundraiser. They've gotten very good at fundraising on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40910]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ought to just say what it is -- it's a fundraiser. They've gotten very good at fundraising on the backs of motorists. Now it's more fees on parking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa and I had been really busy solo practitioners. We decided if we merged our practices and brought in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa and I had been really busy solo practitioners. We decided if we merged our practices and brought in a third dentist (Wargo), we'd be in a better position to serve our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19504]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251]]></link><description><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the money list and everybody was telling you how great you are,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces   When Malindy sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material substance against which one seemed to push when moving about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624]]></link><description><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still to ourselves in every place consigned,   Our own felicity we make or find.    With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,     Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. You just can't allow something like that to happen at the end of the game. Against Falmouth, I really like the effort we put forth against one of the elite teams in the area. We played right with them for a long stretch of the game, but we eventually just got tired and they took advantage of our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that lovely face who view,   They should not ask if truth be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the 30-year Treasury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the 30-year Treasury is so low is because people are expecting an economic slowdown, and that's not going to be good for earnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829</guid></item></channel></rss>