<?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[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was a freshman - and he has taken a beating. But this year, he's giving one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir   Of joy and sorrow,    Methinks that there abides in thee     Some concord with humanity,      Given to no other flower I see       The forest through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65905]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not been there even though he is the governor of Texas. When Sen. Lieberman goes there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38161]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not been there even though he is the governor of Texas. When Sen. Lieberman goes there he will be there one more time than the governor of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty years ago   Comes into grace again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870]]></link><description><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1149]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat thy company   To see the wonders of the world abroad    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,     Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19667]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10221]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead;  And made his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54471]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead;  And made his eldest son, one day,   Slave in his father's stead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350]]></link><description><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553]]></link><description><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2201]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on this condition - do not build itBy the sea where I was born,I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3651</guid></item></channel></rss>