<?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[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction alters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,  Ye trees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,   Say, is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is one slick piece of political mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is one slick piece of political mail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431]]></link><description><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from all duty free,   And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties here now. I would like to stay here for a few more years yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The map is not the territory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The map is not the territory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36960]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing in-stock levels, customer service and store traffic, ... Nearly all of our vendors have resumed shipments to us and in-stock levels in the stores have improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item></channel></rss>