<?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 was like a kid on Christmas morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,   Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38009]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War with vices, but peace with individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50409]]></link><description><![CDATA[War with vices, but peace with individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars and fuel? ... As chairman of the House Environment Committee, I heard from all sides of this debate. My conclusion: Incentives to reduce pollution are better than forcing motorists to live with a de facto car tax which won't make cleaner air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a tree frog that's possibly a new species. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tree frog that's possibly a new species.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense won the game for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health—right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness—happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees—these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace—peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character—good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I promise you love. Time will not take that away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much might be said on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much might be said on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39292]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49101]]></link><description><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48041]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if he goes to prep school, I think he still wants to go to Syracuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if he goes to prep school, I think he still wants to go to Syracuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item></channel></rss>