<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that makes everybody's property values higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3132]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38827]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par... and then make a hole-in-one to boot. That might put me in the history books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ever after the storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15308]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25271]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little we heed the tempest drear, While music, mirth, and social cheer,  Speed on their wings the passing year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little we heed the tempest drear, While music, mirth, and social cheer,  Speed on their wings the passing year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item></channel></rss>