<?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[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We struggled on serving, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We struggled on serving,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580]]></link><description><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47387]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leonard and Ali made their mark on network television, the Olympics ? Ali on 'Wide World of Sports,' Sugar Ray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leonard and Ali made their mark on network television, the Olympics ? Ali on 'Wide World of Sports,' Sugar Ray on ABC and so forth. By the time they were ready to go for the big bucks, they were household names. In this environment, it's much tougher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35544]]></link><description><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of recorded time,   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools    The way to dusty death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65155]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53935]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64945]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations than any other economist in the country. He's a wonderful politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24148]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see small businesses growing around all of this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491]]></link><description><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would have had it, but I had a really bad long jump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681</guid></item></channel></rss>