<?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 best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,  Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59073]]></link><description><![CDATA[To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   To read or look upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not arrested or detained anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not arrested or detained anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15946]]></link><description><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear their excuse; for He himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased Him, He might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death He did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as He did for us all; for, as He saith himself, "he that will be mine, let him deny himself, and follow me, in bearing my cross and suffering my pains." Wherefore we must needs suffer pain with Christ to do our neighbor good, as well with the body and all his members, as with heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10426]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10426</guid></item></channel></rss>