<?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[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60838]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be to coordinate inquiries and efforts, exchange information and plan for the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be to coordinate inquiries and efforts, exchange information and plan for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,  And I am something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23265]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,  And I am something curious, being strange,   To have them in sale stowage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely fun to play on the road. I actually like it a little bit more. The fans get all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely fun to play on the road. I actually like it a little bit more. The fans get all into it and the crowd gets rowdy. It makes it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43254]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21799]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33472]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From those who spoke her praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33427]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take risk with other, newer merchandise. We've just gotten a lot better at managing our inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9137]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27980]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11257]]></link><description><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. I liked those games in Maui. I'm still going to play hard against Quinnipiac, but next week we start a bigger, real-deal season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item></channel></rss>