<?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[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd hate to be another person in blaze orange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   It's in a part of town That's full of factories and filth.  I've seen the folks go down, Small folk with roses in their cheeks  And starlight in their eyes; And seen them fall among the thieves,  And heard their helpless cries. The priests and Levites speeding by   Read of the latest crimes In headlines spread in black and red  Across the Evening Times. How hard for those in limousines  To heal the heart of man! It was a slow-paced ass that bore  The Good Samaritan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31469]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9826]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can never have too much information. If we combine the best information with our basketball people we should be able to make the most informed and best decisions in the NBA. Daryl will be an important part of that process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a result tomorrow night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263</guid></item></channel></rss>