<?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[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale,  And every tale condemns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51520]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale,  And every tale condemns me for a villain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50863]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the province of the mind, what one believes to be trueeither is true or becomes true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22380]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the province of the mind, what one believes to be trueeither is true or becomes true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The latest of whose train goes softly out   In the red west.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way it ended up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29562]]></link><description><![CDATA[But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the company in general is in very good shape, but there are some general investor concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the company in general is in very good shape, but there are some general investor concerns about how long Stryker can maintain its 20-plus percent growth in earnings operational rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248]]></link><description><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her constancy,   True friendship and fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by these rather unjustified increases in interest rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be honest and fear no labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And half a world away!    Rose-red and blood-red     The stripes forever gleam;      Snow-white and soul-white--       The good forefathers' dream;        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item></channel></rss>