<?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 commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45987]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30612]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices in a premium for these stocks because it's human nature to be conservative,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9423]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19951]]></link><description><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"   "How's the world a-usin' you?"    . . . .     W'en you travel through the strange      Country t'other side the range,       Then the souls you've cheered will know        Who you be, an' say "hullo."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38190]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep working on the cars, trying to extract speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22212]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel. The world can be polio-free in another 12 to 18 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30805]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel. The world can be polio-free in another 12 to 18 months everywhere, and the poorest countries in the world are committed to turning this around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and swung    In the palpitating air,     Drowsed with odors strange and rare.      And, with whispered laughter, slipped away       And let him hanging there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;  Ours has severest virtue for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;  Ours has severest virtue for its basis,   And such a friendship ends not but with life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27176]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33049]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33049</guid></item></channel></rss>