<?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[We are growing as an industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are growing as an industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50670]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40490]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander that way, call it home;   He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information to go before a jury and prove guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099]]></link><description><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3008</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[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.   - Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796</guid></item></channel></rss>