<?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[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22742]]></link><description><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24922]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features,  That in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16072]]></link><description><![CDATA[God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features,  That in the waters we may see all Creatures;   Even all that on the earth is to be found,    As if the world were in deep waters drowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt he deserved the opportunity to start a game. He hasn't started one all year. We were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt he deserved the opportunity to start a game. He hasn't started one all year. We were going to use a lot of guys anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25233]]></link><description><![CDATA['That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â© than any other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â© than any other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36828</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[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The markets are breaking out of a trading range to the upside, ... We're seeing the best advance decline ratios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The markets are breaking out of a trading range to the upside, ... We're seeing the best advance decline ratios in weeks. The rally seems to be pretty broad-based . . . more quality stocks are picking up, adding to techs' leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item></channel></rss>