<?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[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dearths foreseene come not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dearths foreseene come not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.   - George Washington,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16986]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is important to remember is that people are resilient, and people do have the ability to build again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31800]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is important to remember is that people are resilient, and people do have the ability to build again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;   And this our life, exempt from human haunt,    Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,     Sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491]]></link><description><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27671]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The map is not the territory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The map is not the territory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117</guid></item></channel></rss>