<?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[Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with information on how to build energy-efficient homes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with information on how to build energy-efficient homes will give them the tools to meet the needs of homeowners seeking to reduce energy costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35011]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56689]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets   That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know    What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence     As pearls from diamonds dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way  To where you taper cheers the vale  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way  To where you taper cheers the vale   With hospitable ray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get after your man,' and that's what happened. We were able to knock the ball loose and go down and score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the mine is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can come of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can come of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a great job of getting him the ball in good position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41832</guid></item></channel></rss>