<?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[Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</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[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any expression of religious or cultural identity by anyone else is forbidden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any expression of religious or cultural identity by anyone else is forbidden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</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[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,   And all that thou hast done for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48198]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4160]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And every day that goes by, it seems like I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life. You touch my heart in a way I never knew before. I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27461]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40487]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And the Cabots walk with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34170]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the key persons 25-54 demographic, all three stations are tied in a statistical dead heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the key persons 25-54 demographic, all three stations are tied in a statistical dead heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53442</guid></item></channel></rss>