<?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[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake took it very personal last season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake took it very personal last season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam  Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a very strong team in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102]]></link><description><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47758]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who have nothing have little to fear,   Nothing to lose or to gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58531]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind to mind   In body and in soul can bind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24393]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of sudden cardiac death during an episode of moderate to vigorous exertion in this large group of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of sudden cardiac death during an episode of moderate to vigorous exertion in this large group of women was exceedingly low, even lower than we had found previously in a large group of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413</guid></item></channel></rss>