<?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 man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,  Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head Start doesn’t work. That’s a flat out lie and it’s disrespectful to you and the tens of thousands of Americans who make this program work for children every single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58814]]></link><description><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I wouldn't want to do anything else. I love playing defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377]]></link><description><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Upstate of South Carolina has an excellent engineering resource base that will allow us to continue growing our business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Upstate of South Carolina has an excellent engineering resource base that will allow us to continue growing our business and meeting our customers' expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of the pleasures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of the pleasures]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59811]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072]]></link><description><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is growing up without growing old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is growing up without growing old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26665</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></channel></rss>