<?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[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28029]]></link><description><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium   Nudus castra peto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40504]]></link><description><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38695]]></link><description><![CDATA[They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining slabs. They came back today with a crew from the Crane Naval Depot and determined they were empty and harmless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43969]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing,   And never did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the lea   That's the way for Billy and me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57547]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item></channel></rss>