<?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[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19508]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8764]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes into sevens and turn things around in a positive way. It's nothing we're dwelling on. But it's something we have to get turned around and fix as we move on with the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65020]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish outlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</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[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting off people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13442]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777</guid></item></channel></rss>