<?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[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves   His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man    His annual visit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't ask for a better finish, with 83,000 people here to watch us and 20 million people in Australia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38518]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't ask for a better finish, with 83,000 people here to watch us and 20 million people in Australia following us. I just can't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're coming at it from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37839]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're coming at it from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38708]]></link><description><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good team hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope all Iraqis will vote 'Yes' to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope all Iraqis will vote 'Yes' to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all parties to the proceeding working together to reach an agreement that is fair and equitable to all stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13510]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62494]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item></channel></rss>