<?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[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stuck to the game plan and we knew what they were doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37483]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stuck to the game plan and we knew what they were doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763]]></link><description><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take any risk. There is caution, indeed, because of the elections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58481]]></link><description><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was gone the entire break, and she came back in time for the Sicily Island tournament. She's kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40797]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was gone the entire break, and she came back in time for the Sicily Island tournament. She's kind of sluggish right now, but she has fit in real good with the program. We're very happy to have her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41487]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268]]></link><description><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39648]]></link><description><![CDATA[if you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53696]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53696</guid></item></channel></rss>