<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50601]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships rigged out with sails of fire,    And blown by the evening air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585]]></link><description><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness  And take fools' pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59614]]></link><description><![CDATA[In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness  And take fools' pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53229]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38838]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48550]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item></channel></rss>