<?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[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15018]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost two, really three (days) because Wednesday was a wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost two, really three (days) because Wednesday was a wash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's  I've shook off old mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's  I've shook off old mortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58038]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as we are men. But we do not ordinarily apply it to the best purposes. It is not so ordinary for men to resolve to be good as to resolve to be rich and great, not so common for men to resolve against sin as to resolve against poverty and suffering. It is not so usual for men to resolve to keep a good conscience as to keep a good place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kiss the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kiss the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12915]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold at least 500 cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49333]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the water intrusion was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to it. The great thing about [Jo] is that she can take what's thrown her way and handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38405</guid></item></channel></rss>