<?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[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66071]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60554]]></link><description><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64176]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15694]]></link><description><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you can say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958]]></link><description><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 it's a moot point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In the School of Coquettes!    When her brooch she forgets     'Tis to show her new collar;      In the School of Coquettes       Madam Rose is a scholar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64887]]></link><description><![CDATA[An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays   And into words his longing gushes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35525]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item></channel></rss>