<?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[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26294</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[And little eagles wave their wings in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099]]></link><description><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46913]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34706]]></link><description><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38303]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. Itis a constant state of awareness of oneness with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. Itis a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All that has been resolved is the venue. What both sides have done is buy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18767]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I hit it pretty good and made most of the putts that are looked at. It was a good putting day basically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18358]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we hear Oxfamwe think famine..that those who promoteoxeatingcreate famine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye on the needy world of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item></channel></rss>