<?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[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51354]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first in glory, as the first in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first in glory, as the first in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53470]]></link><description><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33306]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, we kept on doing it out of respect for him. It was just something he wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring  That she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17786]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring  That she did give me, whose posy was   For all the world like cutler's poetry    Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,   He lays for us the pillows straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12351]]></link><description><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12351</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[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28835]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44360]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in condition. I was never taken out of a game because I was weak. I was taken out because I was getting hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791</guid></item></channel></rss>