<?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[If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tone of the market was already negative, and that was reinforced today by the news from Brazil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tone of the market was already negative, and that was reinforced today by the news from Brazil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405]]></link><description><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and we still missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's breezy, hit it easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57752]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's breezy, hit it easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59002]]></link><description><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as well, into something hip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other success can compensate for failure in the home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60232]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other success can compensate for failure in the home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're used to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu bug might hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30725]]></link><description><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and paves the way for confrontations rather than a settlement. The summit would fail, and this would lead to explosions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33470]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item></channel></rss>