<?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[Thorough preparation makes its own luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24578]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice Is a celestial melody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice Is a celestial melody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hustle and bustle of Charlottesville has been great to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hustle and bustle of Charlottesville has been great to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage   Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues    Have I liked several women; never any     With so full soul but some defect in her      Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,       And put it to the foil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf, like measles, should be caught young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622]]></link><description><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yours was the 10,000-day war born of the Vietnamese's desire to be free and fueled by communist ideology. You met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yours was the 10,000-day war born of the Vietnamese's desire to be free and fueled by communist ideology. You met the call of duty, shouldered your burdens and returned with valor, courage and commitment. We respect, admire and thank you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54100]]></link><description><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39590]]></link><description><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25469]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57111]]></link><description><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore,   Here's a double health to thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil,  Must bring its tribute, great or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56180]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil,  Must bring its tribute, great or small,   And help to build the wooden wall!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item></channel></rss>