<?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[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40345]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186]]></link><description><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,   The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we are certain of sorrow in store   Why do we always arrange for more?    Brothers and sisters I bid you beware     Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and I admit   That they are very good to me.    Succor the poor, my sisters,--I     While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health      Will strive to share and mollify       The trials of abounding wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19792]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make a brand new end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring different aspects to the game. They're doing a great job of getting the ball to their receivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, all the voyage of their life   Is bound in shallows and in miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294</guid></item></channel></rss>