<?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 smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30911]]></link><description><![CDATA[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They get a little frustrated and lose their poise a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50242]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17239]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54219]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33405]]></link><description><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34597]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of Alaska as seen from the air, and with one click of a button, the viewer is able to add the locations of all of the other drilling sites in Alaska. It really drives home that most of Alaska is already open to oil and gas development and there's this one place that we've managed to protect thus far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35811]]></link><description><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve of the 2006 budget,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</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[When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him the silent treatment and ignore him. I had an idea that it might be coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222</guid></item></channel></rss>