<?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 is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather deal with the consequences or the prevention?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on the investments that we and our partners have made. A great example is the fact that we now have 100 business partner innovation centers around the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates . That's when I knew Caleb Mangum had arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she says, it is forgiven because she has been beaten down and she has risen to the top. America loves an underdog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day never comes when it'll du   To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and He does for us what He promised; and the thing works out. To our amazement, it works out. And then we settle down. We have had our own first-hand and irrefutable experience. But, instead of opening the windows to the glory of the sunshine so evidently there, instead of being incited to a hugeness of faith by what Christ has already done for us, we can't believe that there can be anything more, or that even He can work, for us, anything better. That first foretaste satisfies us. And so we camp for life out on the confines of the Kingdom, and never press on to inherit what is there and meant for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get a collective bargaining agreement done with Gene (Upshaw) and I don't see why we're having such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get a collective bargaining agreement done with Gene (Upshaw) and I don't see why we're having such a holdup at this time. He has his reasons and we have our reasons, but it's not a healthy situation to have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57715]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   Monopolized, because of which    It falls to me to labor as     A Little Brother of the Rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49546]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59366]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass production is for the masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mass production is for the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor who was there (Iraq) who can help me out or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60585]]></link><description><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60585</guid></item></channel></rss>