<?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[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/81]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/81</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15189]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37538]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to be spent on innovative programs that equip children to succeed, rather than always sending money to schools regardless of whether or not they succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it to graduation (that) students see that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite than a farmer who in conducting his team.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50227</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[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess of how bad it actually is ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â how bad, how long and how nobody knew about it, ... I don't think Democrats or Republicans win on this. It basically makes people detest Congress even more and deters voter turnout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54430]]></link><description><![CDATA[You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bizarre, it's symptomatic that they allow this increase before the final safety rulings have been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bizarre, it's symptomatic that they allow this increase before the final safety rulings have been made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41154]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item></channel></rss>