<?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[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LionessA controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LionessA controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. And you, they said, how many sons have you at a birth?' The Lioness laughed at them, and said: Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred Lion. The value is in the worth, not in the number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin and Bone   That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61432]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade,   Then let example be obey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4766]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4294]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52596]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all forms of government the people is the true legislator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24595]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14135]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its to ensure that our employees who work the mail and our customers who use the mail are safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its to ensure that our employees who work the mail and our customers who use the mail are safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a fantastic job. It was a really good win. We executed and did a lot of good things. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a fantastic job. It was a really good win. We executed and did a lot of good things. Cloverleaf did well early, but then we did what we needed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32528</guid></item></channel></rss>