<?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[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year than I had in the previous 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30127]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17729]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of people on the field, you might as well take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33967]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623]]></link><description><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65336]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52739]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as well as school children from District 22, and a host of Dawson County residents and others in surrounding counties, we were able to help the families furnish their living quarters and obtain food and clothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is news that stays news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is news that stays news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine   And sensibilities so fine!    Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell     Forever in my native shell,      Ordained to move when others please,       Not for my own content or ease;        But toss'd and buffeted about,         Now in the water and now out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. It is only when we see things in the light of God that we see what things are really important, and what things are not. These things seem vastly important, things like ambition, and prestige, and money and gain, lose all their value and importance when they are seen in the light of God. Pleasures and habits and social customs which seem permissible enough, are seen for the dangerous things they are when they are seen in the light of God. Things which seem evils, hardship, toil, discipline, unpopularity, even persecution, are seen in their glory when they are seen in the light of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50013]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little excess capacity left in the labor market, we expect continued upward pressure on wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39109]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little excess capacity left in the labor market, we expect continued upward pressure on wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</guid></item></channel></rss>