<?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's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on the job a couple of weeks ago, he's been working on that file.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48532]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on without   Good morrow to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't turn over the ball five times and expect to win. It's something we have to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38270]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't turn over the ball five times and expect to win. It's something we have to work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60049]]></link><description><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20937]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's athletic, but he's really raw yet. He's definitely a scrappy kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's athletic, but he's really raw yet. He's definitely a scrappy kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608]]></link><description><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our initial reaction is that the shares are likely to tread water during what is likely to be a difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our initial reaction is that the shares are likely to tread water during what is likely to be a difficult transition in its attempt to outsource 100 percent of its handset production and as its networks operator's division goes through temporary growing pains, which are likely to weigh on margins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love never slackened, nor ever shall be. And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning; in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore,  With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir,   Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41226]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew)   Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our own shadows forever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57020]]></link><description><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57020</guid></item></channel></rss>