<?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[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a purist. There are a lot of different championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20238]]></link><description><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--   He lived from all attainder of suspects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain;  "In love there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain;  "In love there is no lack," thus I begin;   "Fair words make fools," replieth he again;    "Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;     "As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";      "Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;       "A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";        "Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";         "Light burden's heavy, if far borne";          Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";           "Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.            And having thus awhile each other thwarted             Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot;  L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49092]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25951]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,   And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47306</guid></item></channel></rss>