<?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[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it hit his arm below the fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it hit his arm below the fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225]]></link><description><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59127]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48548]]></link><description><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12609]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088]]></link><description><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the Morning Show on Minneapolis, Minn., radio station KDWB. The drive was coordinated through WMSI-102.9 (Miss 103) in Jackson.] We got them in all shapes and sizes, ... Boxers, briefs, bikinis, thongs. We made this a fun thing, but underwear is one of those things ... people kept saying they needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17834</guid></item></channel></rss>