<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22506]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is life outside the high-tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is life outside the high-tech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa.   Bene est, cui Deus obtulit    Parca, quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living   Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56596]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   They are slaves who dare not be    In the right with two or three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7292]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,   See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56173</guid></item></channel></rss>