<?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[Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The turnover in housing has a strong relationship with remodeling activity. You want to keep up with the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The turnover in housing has a strong relationship with remodeling activity. You want to keep up with the value of your investment because it is appreciating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure is Iran and oil, and a correction in Apple's stock, but it's resilient in the face of that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure is Iran and oil, and a correction in Apple's stock, but it's resilient in the face of that. The vital signs look reasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, the risk has increased, particularly with the current economic situation. However, we believe that Nokia's superior supply-chain management and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, the risk has increased, particularly with the current economic situation. However, we believe that Nokia's superior supply-chain management and its ability to reach the end market will keep it ahead of its peers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48142]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398]]></link><description><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,   Or all the toil is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all night   Singeth a quiet tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better fed than taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better fed than taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2522]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42151</guid></item></channel></rss>