<?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[I do not like work even when someone else does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and is an excellent investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2436]]></link><description><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, andvirtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, andvirtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman the leader of the enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman the leader of the enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . .  Send you each year a homely letter,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . .  Send you each year a homely letter,   Who may return me much a better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't know there was anything being built until today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't know there was anything being built until today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61162]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini   In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter  Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau   All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some hidden plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family life. She was able to get her kids off to the school bus and have her business wrapped by the time they came home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job v.7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job v.7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and the administrative duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719</guid></item></channel></rss>