<?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 best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4273]]></link><description><![CDATA[birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24514]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34396]]></link><description><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but any spark can ignite a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes  Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer and where down here two times. I think it helped us handle the pressure. To be 45 strokes better and tie for second tells you how tough a field it is. It's almost unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did a great job. He didn't trying to feel it enough where he was forcing bad shots. For the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a great job. He didn't trying to feel it enough where he was forcing bad shots. For the most part, they were all very good shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training is useless unless you have a purpose, it's knowing for what purpose to train for that can break men's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Training is useless unless you have a purpose, it's knowing for what purpose to train for that can break men's fulfillment. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects all three of those countries and others on the [Persian] Gulf. Turkey and Syria need to also be engaged to help in the management of the water resources of the entire basin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a post-holiday boost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered on the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly direct transfers to the Iraqi central bank to finance the war with Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye!  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye!  When I behold thee, though my light be dim,   Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him    Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne,     And minds the covenant between all and One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item></channel></rss>