<?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 a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/335]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55076]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still  Before the storm, in the long interval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still  Before the storm, in the long interval   Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze    Which Germans call the Wind's bride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57856]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28685]]></link><description><![CDATA[ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,   Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes:    I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62189]]></link><description><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dynamics of Goal Setting, Success Motivation Institute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dynamics of Goal Setting, Success Motivation Institute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9052]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My guess is that (Merkel's) Christian Democrats might be marginally more in line with the U.S. position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22181]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51664</guid></item></channel></rss>