<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both of them work very hard on their game. Both of them were outstanding in the classroom, and both of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both of them work very hard on their game. Both of them were outstanding in the classroom, and both of them do the right things most all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all cells in the same body of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all cells in the same body of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1325]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!    Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's still a bit tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's still a bit tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of my idolatry,   And I'll believe thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;   Of form and aspect too magnificent    To be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again  Thanksgivings for the golden hours,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again  Thanksgivings for the golden hours,   The early and the latter rain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47259]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never too old to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26581]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never too old to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care for nae-body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item></channel></rss>