<?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[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803]]></link><description><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5342]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18882]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45098]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look forward to this new relationship with the Arizona Lottery. We recognized early on that it was an excellent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look forward to this new relationship with the Arizona Lottery. We recognized early on that it was an excellent opportunity for all involved - us, our viewers and people that play the lottery in southern Arizona. It's a win-win all around, and we're delighted to have been selected as the local television drawing partner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22327]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin and Bone   That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3570]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.   But with a blessing every glade receives    High salutation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has been selected theme of the meeting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy main;--   Miserere Domine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item></channel></rss>