<?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[We soon believe the things we would believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41136]]></link><description><![CDATA[We soon believe the things we would believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18444]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761]]></link><description><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41178]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, terror, and delight   Of distant nations; whose remotest shore    Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;     Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults      Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between leading indicators and subdued inflation expectations, it's really set a nice backdrop for the market today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between leading indicators and subdued inflation expectations, it's really set a nice backdrop for the market today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few maxims are true in every respect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few maxims are true in every respect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8751]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the devil-and-all to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the devil-and-all to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,   Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made a lot of mistakes that I have to eliminate, and Peter will be the first person to tell me that on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8050]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing. The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. Thy love is insuperable when nothing may overcome it, that is, neither weal, nor woe, nor anguish, just of flesh nor the liking of this world... Thy love is inseparable when all thy thoughts and thy wills are gathered together and fastened wholly in Jesus Christ, so that thou mayest no time forget Him, but aye thou thinkest on Him... Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item></channel></rss>