<?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[Greene wood makes a hott fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don't want to be singled out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don't want to be singled out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/407]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47119]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still here. I take my three-mile walk at the mall everyday, and who knows what new treatments could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31344]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still here. I take my three-mile walk at the mall everyday, and who knows what new treatments could come along. I am 68, and I plan to make it to 70.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;   The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats    In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim;     Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.      An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants!       And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20624]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees,   Yet to be come at by the breeze:    He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed:     And somewhat pensively he wooed:      He sang of love, with quiet blending,       Slow to begin, and never ending;        Of serious faith, and inward glee;         That was the song,--the song for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if they made contact, they keep the ball in the ballpark. That lineup doesn't have any weak spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39689</guid></item></channel></rss>