<?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[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/707]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing every game as if it's the seventh inning. We knew we had to crawl our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing every game as if it's the seventh inning. We knew we had to crawl our way back into this thing. I think we did that today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the guys in Houston get out safely. Things definitely happen for a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about moving this state forward to get this state fiscally sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about moving this state forward to get this state fiscally sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall we now   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,    And sell the mighty space of our large honors     For so much trash as may be grasped thus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47751]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post seniors last year so I felt I really needed to step up. They needed me so I stepped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3187</guid></item></channel></rss>