<?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[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36301]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must be   Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a double.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26503]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues of ancient promise there imprest;   Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No time like the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50613]]></link><description><![CDATA[No time like the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55184]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15110]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3632]]></link><description><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand;  So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days,   When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways;    When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago--     The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190]]></link><description><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190</guid></item></channel></rss>