<?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[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17134]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60176]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642]]></link><description><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25101]]></link><description><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those in this world who would rise and shine   Should seek internal excellence to win.    And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair     Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind      That where they meet they perish. All is fair       When they are gone and nought remains behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to either the Big 12 or the Pac-10, ... Arizona State has posted more non-conference wins versus the current BCS Top 25 (No. 9 Iowa and No. 25 UTEP) by itself than the entire SEC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed to be leading to bail him out, You never want to call him dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9271]]></link><description><![CDATA[People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37361]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an easy thing for them to pack it in. We talked about some things at halftime and put it on their shoulders to come out in the second half and do it, and they did it one goal at a time. I'm really proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment that has increased productivity. They're making employment act differently in this upturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free from the error of making books an end in themselves. The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking. The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life. That book serves best which early makes itself unnecessary, just as a signpost serves best after it is forgotten, after the traveler has arrived safely at his desired haven. The work of a good book is to incite the reader to moral action, to turn his eves toward God and urge him forward. Beyond that it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60078]]></link><description><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1252</guid></item></channel></rss>