<?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[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49086]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49086</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[I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216]]></link><description><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6998]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is still a word going forth -- from Him who liveth for ever and ever -- the voice which says, "These bones shall rise."   All struggles after union, though they may be of the most abortive kind, though they may produce fresh sects and fresh divisions, though they must do so as long as they rest on the notion that unity is something visible and material, yet indicate a deep and divine necessity which men could not be conscious of in their dreams if they were not beginning to wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   Met to vote that autumn's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491]]></link><description><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32079]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4082]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The words repeat    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864]]></link><description><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item></channel></rss>