<?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[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5460]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18420]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14206]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31197]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,   'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;    While round his couch's golden rim     The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--      Struggling each other's light to dim,       And catch his last smile e'er he slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58549]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19277]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of performance is what he can give us and what we need each and every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42081]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule of thumb, we give 10 days for them to move out if they are found to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule of thumb, we give 10 days for them to move out if they are found to be in possession of drugs. This is a government-funded complex and we have to follow the guidelines regarding drug offenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441</guid></item></channel></rss>