<?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[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and with the new systems we have, I'm not playing as much. I'm not playing up to my standards, that's first and foremost. I'm the one who has to look at myself in the mirror every day and I have high expectations for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them glad,   With such service as they had--    When they had dined, as I you say,     Lordis and ladies yede to play;      Some to tables and some to chess,       With other games more and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat in his hands telling you that you just made a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UA has suffered recurring losses from operations and may not generate sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29663]]></link><description><![CDATA[UA has suffered recurring losses from operations and may not generate sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations as they become due,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48553]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5455]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy, but I'm tired, exhausted and emotionally drained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy, but I'm tired, exhausted and emotionally drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court and getting screens set for him. I wasn't used to that; it really caught me off-guard. But it's an experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30570]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying our dues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item></channel></rss>