<?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[There was always a dark element to our songs, some social commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41404]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was always a dark element to our songs, some social commentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn't have the chance to be with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19155]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196]]></link><description><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the team's best performance by far. Everything was clicking offensively and defensively and my arm felt great. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the team's best performance by far. Everything was clicking offensively and defensively and my arm felt great. I was able to establish my fastball early and felt real comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9432]]></link><description><![CDATA[However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9432</guid></item></channel></rss>