<?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[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30125]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' unfeeling for his own.    Yet ah! why should they know their fate,     Since sorrow never comes too late,      And happiness too swiftly flies?       Thought would destroy their paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39748]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's bad news for China and Pakistan. This creates suspicion, which is what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are designated as entrances to residence halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Further improvement in earnings and additional declines in the unemployment rate is likely to boost overall confidence and keep consumption ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Further improvement in earnings and additional declines in the unemployment rate is likely to boost overall confidence and keep consumption strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart   Till we meet shall pant for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59437]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand English to their side,   Or as a little snow, tumbled about,    Anon becomes a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15214</guid></item></channel></rss>