<?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[Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit  Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26735]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident could have happened twice ? that lightning strikes twice. I believe it does. I think this is one [case] where there was reasonable doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, to be in the way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29844]]></link><description><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to better myself. I want to get a better job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to better myself. I want to get a better job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person has the right to rain on your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52368]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person has the right to rain on your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are one!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy brain,   We'll have our pleasure o'er again,    To warm the heart, to charm the sight,     Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46844]]></link><description><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in   Worthy song from earnest soul!    Hold, in high poetic duty,     Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48124]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41276]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12649]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61357</guid></item></channel></rss>