<?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[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy has increased by a remarkable 30 years. Yet according to the CDC report quoted by Abramson,] 25 years of this gain are attributable to advances in public health. ... These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30743]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955]]></link><description><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound,   Is wont with spede to send redresse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise   Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,    And love than either; and there would arise,     A something in them which was not desire,      But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,       Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must not change   Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from    The secure shade of their own vines, to be     Scorched with the flames of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant himself afresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20862]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61080]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43164]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49088]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item></channel></rss>