<?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[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physical player that finished his checks and could play that grinding game which all fans would respect, but certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39658]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physical player that finished his checks and could play that grinding game which all fans would respect, but certainly in Philly they really respected that kind of play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25386]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-four forty, or fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-four forty, or fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35589]]></link><description><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file bankruptcy just in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto  Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23165]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8716]]></link><description><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2895]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the essence of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the essence of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51688]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes it a sorrow to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156</guid></item></channel></rss>