<?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[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19328]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2732]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward leaps,   Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.    Parch not your life with dry despair;     The stream of hope flow everywhere--      So under every sky and star,       Just drop your bucket where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24196]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury    Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash,     And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,      The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt,       That gulls the easy creditor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake -- a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is run by C students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is run by C students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies that we have deployed would have a low chance of finding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi:  Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that we should negotiate pipeline routes through Armenia in exchange for Armenia militarily freeing our territories is simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that we should negotiate pipeline routes through Armenia in exchange for Armenia militarily freeing our territories is simply not a wise strategy. I'm against it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. So we just have to be able to contain him and not let him get outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, one time a year, to assist those in need across Idaho.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40417</guid></item></channel></rss>