<?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[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13574]]></link><description><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a way that it certainly hadn't been in at least a generation, if not more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad dog never sees the Wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49001]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black holes are where God divided by zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black holes are where God divided by zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54424]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081]]></link><description><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to talk to them. I'm just seizing the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61850]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item></channel></rss>