<?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[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells orinhabitants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells orinhabitants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of fishing is not angling, but catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just forget about it and play the next play. We don't worry about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just forget about it and play the next play. We don't worry about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37062]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62581]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each mouth, a different soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each mouth, a different soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's incredible to do that back to back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's incredible to do that back to back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy's will is the wind's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy's will is the wind's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item></channel></rss>