<?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[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32830]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and I can't speak highly enough of what he has achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until the markets come back, ... We don't really know how long that wait might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe it to his father to respect everything that this young man has accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10239]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32801]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say yes to your Universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say yes to your Universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no threats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware   Of lightness in his speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65214]]></link><description><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue,  As beautiful as woman's blush,   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue,  As beautiful as woman's blush,   As evanescent too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the black of my midnight you're the star for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45654]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the black of my midnight you're the star for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11973</guid></item></channel></rss>