<?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 predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think someone would recognize me on the court now if they had seen me last year. My biggest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think someone would recognize me on the court now if they had seen me last year. My biggest improvement is my strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38392]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy has increased by a remarkable 30 years. Yet according to the CDC report quoted by Abramson,] 25 years of this gain are attributable to advances in public health. ... These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many families live from paycheck to paycheck. So few have that nest egg anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33380]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many families live from paycheck to paycheck. So few have that nest egg anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to be her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it's looking like I'm just opening it up for (quarterback Tim Rattay), ... because I don't think he's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29471]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it's looking like I'm just opening it up for (quarterback Tim Rattay), ... because I don't think he's going to pass it to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29401]]></link><description><![CDATA[No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29894]]></link><description><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ... What do we achieve? I think what happened targeted Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first possession. But we gave away scoring opportunities and we didn't even score at all in the third quarter. It was a good season but we ran out of gas tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,   When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve been struggling with for so long is a great benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37067]]></link><description><![CDATA[great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve been struggling with for so long is a great benefit to out city, especially around the old Wehadkee site and in Knoxville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436</guid></item></channel></rss>