<?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[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19074]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward leaps,   Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.    Parch not your life with dry despair;     The stream of hope flow everywhere--      So under every sky and star,       Just drop your bucket where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48024]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30192]]></link><description><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused on that goal, and we're working as hard as we can to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218]]></link><description><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9844]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37724]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495</guid></item></channel></rss>