<?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[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53402]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had a few brief moments in there where we did play good or looked all right, but, for the most part, we looked like a pee-wee team out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the eye or with Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou who hast The fatal gist of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou who hast The fatal gist of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray   Of duty that the brave endure    Must have made foes. If he has none     Small is the work that he has done.      He has hit no traitor on the hip;       Has cast no cup from perjured lip;        Has never turned the wrong to right;         Has been a coward in the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13658]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only February and we don't expect Greg to be running the way he was last May, but were anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only February and we don't expect Greg to be running the way he was last May, but were anxious to see how he does outdoors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed    That any did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42828</guid></item></channel></rss>