<?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[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42211]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions they can impose. We are pleased. This is what we envisioned as going to happen from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33488]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take the test later. Right now I'm just staying in shape, working out four days a week lifting weights and running three days a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The court itself is unclear on what direction it is going to take in these redistricting cases. Texas may clarify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court itself is unclear on what direction it is going to take in these redistricting cases. Texas may clarify the confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work schedule of 12 to 16 hours a day leaves him an in exhaustive state, and just a few drinks -- or any drink -- are too much to handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644]]></link><description><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just amazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely inn, and near approaches   The subject of our watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56167]]></link><description><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before,   And closes from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,   Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars    Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer     Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,      Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66635]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success as Grove City has had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411</guid></item></channel></rss>