<?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[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather see a serman than hear one any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather see a serman than hear one any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the customer to always get a lot of food for a little money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the customer to always get a lot of food for a little money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's warmth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30356]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534</guid></item></channel></rss>