<?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[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't find a way to articulate that when it came time to fire me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/886]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of education is respecting the pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of education is respecting the pupil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight   With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,    How grateful will appear her dawning rays!     As favours unexpected doubly please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask we make of our faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask we make of our faults]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compatibility remains on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28691]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compatibility remains on the airport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe May 26 would be a great opportunity for promoting Georgia as the cradle of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe May 26 would be a great opportunity for promoting Georgia as the cradle of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its just one big shock, knowing Ill never see him again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its just one big shock, knowing Ill never see him again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151</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[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16085]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51185]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23171]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you   'Tis rigor and not law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</guid></item></channel></rss>