<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42430]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose lightest word   Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,    Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,     Thy knotted and combined locks to part,      And each particular hair to stand on end       Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do them good,   As doctors cure by letting blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someonemust be on top, why not you?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's truly a culture change for SAP. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's truly a culture change for SAP.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every week here is a new challenge. Coaches want to see consistency and not ups and downs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every week here is a new challenge. Coaches want to see consistency and not ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses in the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big companies are global, and they want to integrate their systems because it is cheaper to work with a single ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big companies are global, and they want to integrate their systems because it is cheaper to work with a single telecommunications company around the world. Our challenge is to globalize our U.S. base, which we are doing at a quick pace, and to help multinationals in Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia globalize their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going   From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're no longer a doormat, and the guys want to be part of this resurgence. If we were not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40234]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're no longer a doormat, and the guys want to be part of this resurgence. If we were not in the top 10 this year, we would be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item></channel></rss>