<?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[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially when you get the curly koa. Because of the complexity of the grain, it's a very challenging wood. Mango is a fabulous wood and it's underrated. For some reason, it doesn't carry the influence that koa does. Mango is some beautiful wood. I work some 30 varieties, generally, because I love the variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still a rookie!' But it was a good experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468]]></link><description><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up at your cousin's upcoming wedding reception -- you're good with technology, have you ever considered becoming a Xerox machine repairperson?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke  To melt myself away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56719]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke  To melt myself away in water drops!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47900</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[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue  Of him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23243]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue  Of him that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17702]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39593]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item></channel></rss>