<?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[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22112]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go out there and get this game in tonight and have a good series here. It's out of our hands as far as the weather goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's Niven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense of just letting things take their course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32145]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be stronger throughout the lineup this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place you could hide; there's no place in this region where it's going to be safe for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion that may damage the interest of the client.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item></channel></rss>