<?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 mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi  Vix ea nostra voco.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35270]]></link><description><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did wonders for my confidence. Being out there every day after the All-Star break was important, especially when I knew I had to prove everybody wrong, which I've been having to do since college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39904]]></link><description><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, we have won the war, virtually, and we have to win the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20422]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352]]></link><description><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed  A youth, who bore, 'mid snow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed  A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice   A banner with the strange device,    Excelsior!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to throw a two-seam fastball more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength ofcharacter, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinalfortitude. They are mandatory for anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength ofcharacter, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinalfortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay atthe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21870</guid></item></channel></rss>