<?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 happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3591]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they dont, theres no point of loving. So if you cant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63069]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they dont, theres no point of loving. So if you cant afford to be honest, stay single]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</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[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fears you present will hate you absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18811]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fears you present will hate you absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46593]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples spread!   The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is another word for indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is another word for indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a hempen string   Under the gallow-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40651]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16786]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111]]></link><description><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must love, as looking one day to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must love, as looking one day to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15534]]></link><description><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60639]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit  Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19718</guid></item></channel></rss>