<?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[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted by their fathers, even though they have not quite achieved what their fathers intended. Such children ought we to be, firmly trusting that our services will be approved by our most merciful Father, however small, rude, and imperfect these may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</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[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33294</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><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45363]]></link><description><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more exercise, approved medications or even surgical approaches, we would be rewarded with significantly better health,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd be happy to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say our skill positions have some depth. We have some good, athletic kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say our skill positions have some depth. We have some good, athletic kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see how he would have received a great education here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see how he would have received a great education here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were the judge, I would just continue with the 12 jurors she's got. I think it'd be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were the judge, I would just continue with the 12 jurors she's got. I think it'd be a bad mistake to substitute the jurors at this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human face divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human face divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44036</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[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  Thanksgiving (U.S.)  Here [Mark11:27-33] they discerned a flaw, a heresy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  Thanksgiving (U.S.)  Here [Mark11:27-33] they discerned a flaw, a heresy; and they would force Him either to make a fatal claim, or else to moderate His pretensions at their bidding, which would promptly restore their lost influence and leadership. Nor need we shrink from confessing that our Lord was justly open to such reproach, unless He was indeed Divine, unless He was deliberately preparing His followers for that astonishing revelation, soon to come, which threw the Church upon her knees in adoration of her God manifest in flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item></channel></rss>