<?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[I never take my own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never take my own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!  How it drives beneath the doors!   How it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52933]]></link><description><![CDATA[How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!  How it drives beneath the doors!   How it soaks the passer's feet!    How it rattles on the shutter!     How it rumples up the lawn!      How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,       From darkness until dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a toe-to-toe heavyweight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a toe-to-toe heavyweight fight. Kurt has the best car right now. I can't seem to put any space between us. He's been storming up behind us in the points. I had to win just to hold him off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just started. The crowds aren't too heavy yet, but through the weekend we expect better results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just started. The crowds aren't too heavy yet, but through the weekend we expect better results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight to start both games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream,  When Sol in joy is seen to leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54328]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream,  When Sol in joy is seen to leave   The earth with crimson beam;    When islands that wandered far     Above his sea couch lie,      And here and there some gem-like star       Re-opes its sparkling eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47084]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugaror coffee and I will pay more for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugaror coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other underthe sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light   Into a sea of dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item></channel></rss>