<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38539]]></link><description><![CDATA[In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual strikes fear in you is no way to live in the United States of America. But that is what is going to happen until any sort of comprehensive legislation is passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For us the Showdown is like having hundreds of talent scouts evaluating tens of thousands of artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34391]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34588]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens ... our youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50258]]></link><description><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the blind wind's blowing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. thanks to Alan Bennett -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27403]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who teaches children learns more than they do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5940]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who teaches children learns more than they do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19913</guid></item></channel></rss>