<?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[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352]]></link><description><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing for every point, I think we will be a very good team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56642]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul that is within me no man can degrade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57204]]></link><description><![CDATA[California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To view each love one blotted from life's page,   And be alone on earth as I am now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36982]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe  Of your precedent lord, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59134]]></link><description><![CDATA[A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe  Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,   A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,    That from a shelf the precious diadem stole     And put it in his pocket--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/605]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a pair of oars,   Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item></channel></rss>