<?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 optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he changes speeds, he works quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's anything new. It's that the mood in the bond market is horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's anything new. It's that the mood in the bond market is horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all, fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32562]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the courts I think will view these cases differently, ... But it will be in the hands of the courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital in a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is a bridle of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is a bridle of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and the administrative duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our season high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60263]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40076]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not given the chance that a lot of other children are given. They deserve better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28854]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not given the chance that a lot of other children are given. They deserve better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28854</guid></item></channel></rss>