<?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[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did a lot of good things during his tenure here. Fred built a strong relationship between the organization, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41691]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a lot of good things during his tenure here. Fred built a strong relationship between the organization, the fans and the Booster Club. We wish him the best of success in his new venture, and at the same time, we know Todd will continue to strengthen the Cotton Kings organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With development infrastructure, sometimes we would find (companies) spending more time working on the (Linux) infrastructure for the project than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40467]]></link><description><![CDATA[With development infrastructure, sometimes we would find (companies) spending more time working on the (Linux) infrastructure for the project than working on the project itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43155]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People had expected everyone to miss the quarter so it's not surprising that they missed. Market conditions are especially challenging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31759]]></link><description><![CDATA[People had expected everyone to miss the quarter so it's not surprising that they missed. Market conditions are especially challenging for some of these companies, and they are now getting down to a point where they can drive a profitable business model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its fullest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise day at night, and life at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise day at night, and life at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21682]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeperdown. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher.Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to findsupernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. Moretime and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563</guid></item></channel></rss>