<?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[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20201]]></link><description><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would he come back?. He's proven himself. You only test the waters if you're a borderline guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would he come back?. He's proven himself. You only test the waters if you're a borderline guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at all. There I must stop. If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radiation portal monitors are...allowing highly trained [Customers and Border Protection] officers to better deter, detect and defend Americans from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radiation portal monitors are...allowing highly trained [Customers and Border Protection] officers to better deter, detect and defend Americans from a potential terror attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32180]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're used to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of athousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed desks has not been a problem before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishers and woulders be small householders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishers and woulders be small householders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47870]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you want it enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you want it enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32736]]></link><description><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, but I thought that to have a public event that night would be a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321]]></link><description><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item></channel></rss>