<?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[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got off to a great start. They were feeding off the emotion from the crowd I think. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got off to a great start. They were feeding off the emotion from the crowd I think. It was great to see Jake hit some shots. He's been struggling lately and to see him shoot like that was fun to watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace. No man safely ruleth but he who loveth to be subject. No man safely commandeth but he who loveth to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351</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[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50061]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587</guid></item></channel></rss>