<?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 world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143]]></link><description><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a democratic Jewish state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, "Looking for gold, ya durn fool." He'd say, "Your pick is gold," and I'd say, "Well, that was easy." Good joke, huh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33689]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a restaurant but I really want something full-time and I am hoping to meet some people that night that might be able to point me in the right direction. Plus, I am so nervous about speaking in front of all those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll always be poor in my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll always be poor in my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't let him [Smith] out of the pocket. We got a good push up the field. He wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37431]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't let him [Smith] out of the pocket. We got a good push up the field. He wasn't going to run anywhere. That is pretty much what we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264]]></link><description><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656</guid></item></channel></rss>