<?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[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually, towns act when there's a crisis. And sometimes good planning decisions can arise - there's that hope here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually, towns act when there's a crisis. And sometimes good planning decisions can arise - there's that hope here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the `90's, it always happens around the October, November months near the end of September, ... To not have a false sense of security because just because we've been slow, doesn't mean we're out of the woods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50003]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50663]]></link><description><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding the city limits at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as early as we can begin to measure it. We ought to be thinking much more about who are the children who already have these disorders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55557</guid></item></channel></rss>