<?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[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/725]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grace that won who saw to wish her stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18084]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business. So far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business. So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.  Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see you again' might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, 'I love you.... I want to marry you.... I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only God helps the badly dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only God helps the badly dressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pot boils badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pot boils badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item></channel></rss>