<?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[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</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/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[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11658]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our league lost a lot of players. Vail Mountain will be the strong team, but the other four teams lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our league lost a lot of players. Vail Mountain will be the strong team, but the other four teams lost a lot of players and are all young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And, taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature -- either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is Heaven: that is, it is joy, and peace, and knowledge, and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40686]]></link><description><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will remain an integral part of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found the austere conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found the austere conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33746</guid></item></channel></rss>