<?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[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring different aspects to the game. They're doing a great job of getting the ball to their receivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such root she took,   And--like a sunflower by a brook,    With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42621]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18441]]></link><description><![CDATA[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age of increasingly mobile labor and capital, companies are more sensitive to tax burdens than ever, ... Rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31703]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age of increasingly mobile labor and capital, companies are more sensitive to tax burdens than ever, ... Rather than chasing away employers with overly aggressive corporate tax laws, states should move toward more stable and less economically harmful revenue sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands He forth so stately and so tall? Because He has no self to serve, no will  That does not seek the welfare of the All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant preoccupation with food, weight, and body image is a sign that an eating disorder is sapping energy from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant preoccupation with food, weight, and body image is a sign that an eating disorder is sapping energy from other areas of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating;  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,   White and dainty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating;  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,   White and dainty cloudlets floating;    Winking at the blushing trees,     And the sombre, furrowed fallow;      Smiling at the airy ease,       Of the southward flying swallow        Sweet and smiling are thy ways,         Beauteous, golden Autumn days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased pariahs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a 100 percent effort all the way but that's OK,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for such a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item></channel></rss>