<?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[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56100]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40241]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to be over-the-top about complaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make! What heavy burdens from our bosoms take,  What parched ground refresh as with a shower! We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all, the distant and the near, Stands forth in sunny outline brave and clear; We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,  Or other, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heratless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delays have dangerous ends. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delays have dangerous ends. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more into account, so it's a lot more competitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... I want someone with musical experience to tell me that I (stink).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our heads, we believe that the church ought to be one truly "classless society" with all men standing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6567]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our heads, we believe that the church ought to be one truly "classless society" with all men standing on a plane of perfect equality at the foot of the Cross. But if in our hearts we do not genuinely want it, the unwanted know it well enough, count us as their enemies, and turn to other faiths. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the day, am I happy with the way we played? Absolutely. Bottom line, we beat 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35377]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the day, am I happy with the way we played? Absolutely. Bottom line, we beat 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From those who spoke her praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31935]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item></channel></rss>