<?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[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738]]></link><description><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This so-called election is a total farce. No citizen or democratic party is willing to participate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40271]]></link><description><![CDATA[This so-called election is a total farce. No citizen or democratic party is willing to participate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42303]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20811]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest."   And I make answer: "I am satisfied;    I dare not ask; I know not what is best;     God hath already said what shall betide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Anne Frank -John B. Sheerin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath, and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item></channel></rss>