<?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[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in our surveys) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in our surveys) is benefits, We decided it was time to get on the bandwagon and do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't put robbers to work in a bank ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't put robbers to work in a bank]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and took everything for granted. We didn't want a million dollars, we wanted more gigs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778]]></link><description><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4489]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and were fresh in the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37258]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in the mail and one at the polls, is very expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by holding elections. Silencing the leadership, the king hopes, will silence the people. Such actions belie his stated belief in democratic principles and the rule of law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  Ni mecontent de son esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many, many prayer services around the world, with people praying for his speedy recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many, many prayer services around the world, with people praying for his speedy recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15164</guid></item></channel></rss>