<?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[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at the Olympics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really historic; it's amazing. What else in California do the L.A. Chamber of Commerce and the SEIU agree on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really historic; it's amazing. What else in California do the L.A. Chamber of Commerce and the SEIU agree on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's money that can be used to help improve the rapid response. ... This would help save lives and property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's money that can be used to help improve the rapid response. ... This would help save lives and property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch Shangri-La in France. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35807]]></link><description><![CDATA[This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch Shangri-La in France. We aim to combine Shangri-La's renowned Asian hospitality, accommodations and dining, with the site's romantic history, privileged location and structural attributes, to create another gem in Paris' crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43324]]></link><description><![CDATA[That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   In wonder, love and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22647]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to add political impetus required to reach an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a verb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a verb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred withlove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item></channel></rss>