<?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[Like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissioners court has reached out to the public and sought input on future facilities. One of my goals as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissioners court has reached out to the public and sought input on future facilities. One of my goals as commissioner was to reach out and establish trusting relationships. With the facility subcommittee, we'll continue on and ultimately we'll do what the public wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52778]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. Unless something is done urgently, the situation will most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34826]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. Unless something is done urgently, the situation will most certainly spiral out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5216]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36621]]></link><description><![CDATA[China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural citizens in the coming years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57921]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure of haste, uneasiness, ill-temper, self-complacency, and conceit, to continue intending justice. Power corrupts; the "insolence of office" will creep in. We see it so clearly in our superiors; is it unlikely that our inferiors see it in us? How many of those who have been over us did not sometimes (perhaps often) need our forgiveness? Be sure that we likewise need the forgiveness of those that are under us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have all the faith in the world in Steve Wynn, ... But a possible downside is the sky-high expectations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have all the faith in the world in Steve Wynn, ... But a possible downside is the sky-high expectations that the company has to live up to. I'd be interested if the stock pulls back and will watch it closely over the next few quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51610]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941]]></link><description><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, "Are you scared, too?" "You bet your sweet life I am." "Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too." We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, "Who else feels like this?" the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2734]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39312]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard part about being a head coach, especially when you have a program that's new, is getting the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hard part about being a head coach, especially when you have a program that's new, is getting the kids to buy into the fact that you have a team. I've had 35 bodies so far show up to my camp, but that's not every day. I might have 15 one day, 18 the next day, then 22.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61235</guid></item></channel></rss>