<?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[A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17589]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23111]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What are kings and crowns to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/70]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/70</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21357]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57541]]></link><description><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4477]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50738]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its fullest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the Democrats, pick you a Republican. Pick somebody. Get off the couch and go vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27918]]></link><description><![CDATA[If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item></channel></rss>