<?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[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group.' 'Yeah,' I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15097]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover   She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57344]]></link><description><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48156]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills   The wilderness profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That team is tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were the ones who started the process, but we always expected others would join the party. The gaming industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were the ones who started the process, but we always expected others would join the party. The gaming industry is a very mature and competitive environment and we're comfortable where we stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19931]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might not need Barry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might not need Barry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42674]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931</guid></item></channel></rss>