<?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[do not want a peaceful settlement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768]]></link><description><![CDATA[do not want a peaceful settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 6-0 to a pretty good pitcher (Pat McCoy). But one thing I've learned is with aluminum bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 6-0 to a pretty good pitcher (Pat McCoy). But one thing I've learned is with aluminum bats, you're never really out of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37899]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,   While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host,  For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast;   How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife,    And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not an either/or issue and does us no good to set this example for our kids or community-at-large, to reduce our concerns to simplistic clichÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½s. Just because something has been declared legal doesn't mean that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still,   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1039]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat  Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43582</guid></item></channel></rss>