<?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[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51801]]></link><description><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;  Dresses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;  Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,   Dresses in which to do nothing at all;    Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;     All of them different in color and shape.      Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,       Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,        Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:  Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen onlyto the inner voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going well and we want to continue like that. We have shown, at home or away, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going well and we want to continue like that. We have shown, at home or away, we have got a lot of fighting spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21652]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie had a little bit of a shot and she pushed the shot a little bit, and I thought (Hanna) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie had a little bit of a shot and she pushed the shot a little bit, and I thought (Hanna) did a great job blocking the shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement in 2002, ... As physicians we should make judicious use of CT scans a priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033</guid></item></channel></rss>