<?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[Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you should remember me with tears and sorrow, I may not remember you at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were excited. These are the types of games these guys grew up seeing our program be in at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28412]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,   Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51613]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143]]></link><description><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460   The evidence for Christian truth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460   The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25118]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   Chosen seats of each fond lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have been penalized for both of those in the month of July, as they were in the month of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35505]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have been penalized for both of those in the month of July, as they were in the month of June and the month of May, ... Are we seeing improvement? I am happy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item></channel></rss>