<?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[I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,  And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth   That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He causes so much attention that it kind of frees me up with one-on-one blocks and it helps me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38181]]></link><description><![CDATA[He causes so much attention that it kind of frees me up with one-on-one blocks and it helps me out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24898]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest forget   That he himself is not the host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what makes this a good team is that the chemistry is great. Everybody shares the ball. Nobody cares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what makes this a good team is that the chemistry is great. Everybody shares the ball. Nobody cares how many shots they take. We make the extra pass. We don't have big egos on the team. That's the great thing. Everybody does their best to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31050]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I personally feel quite comfortable with the machines at this point, I know that many in our community want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I personally feel quite comfortable with the machines at this point, I know that many in our community want to have that added comfort of having that paper trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[can't believe it, but it's next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40293]]></link><description><![CDATA[can't believe it, but it's next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14158]]></link><description><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16959]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29990]]></link><description><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to go and enjoy the experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18031]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18031</guid></item></channel></rss>