<?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[That's for sure. That's a tough format. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57009]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   I am as near as he.    So dear, so very dear to God,     More dear I cannot be;      The love wherewith he loves the Son -       Such is his love to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59798]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4758]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extremely important that our customers understand this is an early warning for all of us to start conserving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extremely important that our customers understand this is an early warning for all of us to start conserving water now, rather than face the possibility of more extreme measures later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled andfell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groanedheavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as wedo, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?Men often bear little grievances with less courage thanthey do large misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66179]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218]]></link><description><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715</guid></item></channel></rss>