<?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[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him an inviting target for liberals and Democrats alike. It goes with the territory. He understands that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34642]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33968]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a little more. A couple of shots here or there. Then maybe if we can make a run, it could have been a little different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,  The bird of dawning singeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,  The bird of dawning singeth all night long,   And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,    The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,     No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm.      So hallowed and so gracious is that time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will respond by many ways, for example by holding back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41292]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will respond by many ways, for example by holding back on oil sales,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much further along than anything I anticipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item></channel></rss>