<?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 have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were a little disappointed they lost (to Socorro), but they also knew they didn't want to lose to Belen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34401]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were a little disappointed they lost (to Socorro), but they also knew they didn't want to lose to Belen. It's not easy to lose to your rival. The first half we played extremely well. The second half we started getting tired, but we were still dominating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,   Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a wash for what you pay for the process and what you'd pay at a lumber yard. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a wash for what you pay for the process and what you'd pay at a lumber yard. But we're just trying to recycle them, so we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere each year, above that from deforestation, from the decomposition of what the loggers leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enterprises running Web services in their data centers are faced with adding more servers to handle capacity, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enterprises running Web services in their data centers are faced with adding more servers to handle capacity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23424]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy thing,   You find you haven't got it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. The trick is to find the brands that are unique, but not so niche and so in-the-know that only 12 people who live in the neighborhood will get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42804]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We empathize with them and feel their pain. What we should say to them is thank you for their sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We empathize with them and feel their pain. What we should say to them is thank you for their sacrifice. It's a pain for the country and an individual pain for those people who live there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54706]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good orator is pointed and impassioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good orator is pointed and impassioned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64776</guid></item></channel></rss>