<?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[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</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[Needle in a bottle of hay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision until any potential petroleum price hikes and their likely impact on inflation becomes clearer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was a Harrods bag'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6525]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah has done a great job of driving in runs for us and he'll learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is there that, shooting all day long, does not sometimes hit the mark? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is there that, shooting all day long, does not sometimes hit the mark?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item></channel></rss>