<?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[We pursue that which retreats from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217</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[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les oeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, she gets the flexibility so she can spend time with the kids when things aren't going on, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, she gets the flexibility so she can spend time with the kids when things aren't going on,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12939]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his arms around me, and when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32990]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes  Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,  Recanting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;   But where there is true friendship, there needs none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910</guid></item></channel></rss>