<?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[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how cognizant of ethnicity can you be in crafting a district. How distorted can a district become when the purpose is to capture a particular race or ethnicity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,   And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48410]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606]]></link><description><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To make men happy, or to keep them so."   (So take it in the very words of Creech)    Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;     And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach      From his translation; but had none admired,       Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18574]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both Regiments or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both Regiments or none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65038]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45661]]></link><description><![CDATA[No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44127]]></link><description><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foe isNew York's Governor Patakiof every child, animaland tree Iraqi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foe isNew York's Governor Patakiof every child, animaland tree Iraqi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2446]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2446</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></channel></rss>