<?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[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15681]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51339]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He held his seat; a friend to human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He held his seat; a friend to human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735]]></link><description><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street to bring the Jets back ... It just seems to be more and more serious as time goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21371]]></link><description><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard part about being a head coach, especially when you have a program that's new, is getting the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hard part about being a head coach, especially when you have a program that's new, is getting the kids to buy into the fact that you have a team. I've had 35 bodies so far show up to my camp, but that's not every day. I might have 15 one day, 18 the next day, then 22.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16114]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62688]]></link><description><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is one of the real visionaries in the intelligence community. She leapt over a couple people in the organization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30196]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is one of the real visionaries in the intelligence community. She leapt over a couple people in the organization to get where she is now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me he wasn't getting into the middle of this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me he wasn't getting into the middle of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40762</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[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4943]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13688]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574</guid></item></channel></rss>