<?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[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach has said, 'Take something away from each race and put it in your toolbox.' By the Olympic race, the toolbox should be overflowing and it is getting there right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head and coming to work every day, it makes you want to play harder for the guy. People were getting crazy out there. There's nothing better than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see how others are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16558]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32292]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry through this merger, and things like this seem like a natural progression going forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item></channel></rss>