<?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[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a long journey straw waighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49532]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a long journey straw waighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that this year. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that this year. We had seen Central come back before, but we managed the game well in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there's still a long ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there's still a long ways to go with the legislation, but a large step has been taken by the majority leader today ... and I admire the majority leader for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53204]]></link><description><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the big energy companies, and the consumers get lumps of coal. There's really nothing to cheer about by anyone who gets a utility bill or has to fill up a gas tank. The energy lobbyists are the big winners, and the rest of us are left in the dust choking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,   Now tell me if that any is.    For gift or grace, surpassing this--     "He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell divides the world between Atheisme and Superstition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell divides the world between Atheisme and Superstition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56874]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armour is light at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Armour is light at table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of snow,   Dirtier than the ground below,    Dribbles down a marshy flood;     Ankle-deep you stick in mud      In the meadows while you sing,       "This is Spring."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60444]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/159]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!   What old December's bareness everywhere!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/159</guid></item></channel></rss>