<?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[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61979]]></link><description><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of the people of Israel, and he's going to sell it to the people of Israel, and ultimately, because the people in the Knesset are politicians, they will have to back him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California can keep the 'favorite' tag and we can fly under the radar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music that I\'ve made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music that I\'ve made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674]]></link><description><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59928]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed  To grateful twilight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9451]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53013]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28919]]></link><description><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51338]]></link><description><![CDATA[O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each week, just before the kickoff of Monday Night Football, thousands of bettors visit Bodog.com to cash in on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each week, just before the kickoff of Monday Night Football, thousands of bettors visit Bodog.com to cash in on their sports-betting intuition. The Monday Night Football 'horse trailer' proposition bet is simply another offering we provide to enhance our players' wagering experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before I take it. I don't compose my shots through the viewfinder, so I'm not keeping my camera visible for long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of the judge's finding that he takes the proposal seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298</guid></item></channel></rss>