<?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[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so far and I think she came through it very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58789]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38737]]></link><description><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who haveonly interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21321]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who haveonly interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We adjusted the man-to-man defense. We got a little more aggressive and were playing the passing lanes a little more. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37676]]></link><description><![CDATA[We adjusted the man-to-man defense. We got a little more aggressive and were playing the passing lanes a little more. We were trying to take away the slice down the lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party is the madness of many, for the gains of a few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party is the madness of many, for the gains of a few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,  Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant   As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is the cause of the loss of truth. But if either is rejected, the other will not abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until the markets come back, ... We don't really know how long that wait might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not donut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not donut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugaror coffee and I will pay more for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugaror coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other underthe sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item></channel></rss>