<?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[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949]]></link><description><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is, in fact, more important for us to know what God did to Israel and to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the contrary, he admonished them that "every one be fully convinced in his own mind" (Rom. 14:5), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His will... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same... For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma has written on George Bush's face.It has sculpted trixoypurine uric acid lines in his browlike music scales with no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma has written on George Bush's face.It has sculpted trixoypurine uric acid lines in his browlike music scales with no notesIt has painted his face the red of cholesterol blockageIt has constricted his right eye.. Time has sculpted Dick Cheney's face.His lip curls with contempt for others.His eyes evade the searchlight of truth.We pray that God give them and all beings mercy.. as God nowremoves them from an office through which they harm hundreds of millions of other beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18678]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We show that these [stem] cells make connections with the nervous system of the mouse in a way that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We show that these [stem] cells make connections with the nervous system of the mouse in a way that is appropriate and could mediate recovery. That's a big thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28552</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[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1489]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, it's not many people from there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's not many people from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34764</guid></item></channel></rss>