<?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 man who has nothing to do is always the busiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1735]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) four times, but never won. They're starved up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1197]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1264]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back home. It's also an opportunity to see first hand the places they've served and continue to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews  Of true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews  Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,   It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost,    Weeps only tears of poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.(typo corrected).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on our marking. We can't be pushed around, we have to get that first punch in and we have to grab and hold. If they call a penalty so be it, but we have stop giving up goals on free kicks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1837]]></link><description><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;    So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;     Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,      Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very entrenched in where I'm at and what I'm doing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very entrenched in where I'm at and what I'm doing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755]]></link><description><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested to see the positive results of the chairman's efforts in doing just that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a great person to model yourself after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50781]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50781</guid></item></channel></rss>