<?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[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[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63412]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32591]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . -John Templeton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41724]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35522]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are everywhere and still watching as well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are everywhere and still watching as well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This act calls for parental notification to one parent before a minor obtains an abortion, but New Hampshire law also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39781]]></link><description><![CDATA[This act calls for parental notification to one parent before a minor obtains an abortion, but New Hampshire law also contains exceptions and provides adequate safeguards to protect any minor facing emergent health risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a big bang and for us to have momentum going into the Big Ten tournament. But I think our team is still there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66131</guid></item></channel></rss>