<?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[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. -King John. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55805]]></link><description><![CDATA[This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  Groups that require little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  Groups that require little of their membership count for little outside of their membership. Real spiritual capacity requires at least as much concentration and training as learning to play a musical instrument. Nobody has ever drifted into a genuine Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428]]></link><description><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be not loath to tell them so.    Lips go dry and eyes grow wet     Waiting to be warmly met,      Keep them not in waiting yet;       Kisses kept are wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte de mon pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64559]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2201]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But he threw a strike when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds,  And ceaseless caws amusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds,  And ceaseless caws amusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man does nothing by constraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man does nothing by constraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42764]]></link><description><![CDATA[But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47248]]></link><description><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The thing I like about it is he really brought the city together, the black and the white. You look up to the stands and you'd see all races up there. ... He brought the city together a lot. That's why a lot of people around here hate to see him go, because that electricity seems like it's died down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</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[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56100]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47283]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60608</guid></item></channel></rss>