<?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[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew,   On Monday in the mall.    For what avail the plough or sail,     Or land, or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the opium of the masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the opium of the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43695]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His Christianity was muscular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6156]]></link><description><![CDATA[His Christianity was muscular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</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[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32632]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story, ... It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light. that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13292</guid></item></channel></rss>