<?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[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the complete package. Any coach would kill to have her on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our community needs an immediate resolution, ... Our community has lost confidence in Dr. Ladner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our community needs an immediate resolution, ... Our community has lost confidence in Dr. Ladner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damage similar to that caused by Ivan will push oil prices above $75. It took more than six months to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damage similar to that caused by Ivan will push oil prices above $75. It took more than six months to restore production after Hurricane Ivan. Crude oil prices increased by more than $10 within a month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian of a faith like this,   Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,    And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61680]]></link><description><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32137]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and gain experience they are more likely to adopt Bt corn rootworm, but once they reach about age 48 they become less likely to adopt the technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21299]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</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[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43515</guid></item></channel></rss>