<?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[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37667</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[Draw your salary before spending it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand, divided we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50692]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand, divided we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the moment. I think they'll thrive on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43969]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland was living!   Here they grew,    From blue to deeper blue, in midst of each     A golden dazzle like a glimmering star,      Each broader, bigger than a silver crown;       While here the weaver sat, his labor done,        Watching his azure pets and rearing them,         Until they seem'd to know his step and touch,          And stir beneath his smile like living things:           The very sunshine loved them, and would lie            Here happy, coming early, lingering late,             Because they were so fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most exciting match of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42149]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most exciting match of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally. But there's a younger audience that might appreciate it. These are good songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only your friends steal your books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only your friends steal your books]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item></channel></rss>