<?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[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had rested a little more or could have been more aggressive in a meet. It's not anything major, just little things here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50444]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9216]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund improvements to a roadway that has not been on any kind of planned improvement list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102]]></link><description><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6081]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If (union members) were going to end up paying so much more into the retirement plan or the health insurance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If (union members) were going to end up paying so much more into the retirement plan or the health insurance ... why would you want to keep the job? You can't make a living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard to handicap teams at Triple-A, because you don't know what the league will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61222]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461]]></link><description><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461</guid></item></channel></rss>