<?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 Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41072]]></link><description><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be an informational meeting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40519]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be an informational meeting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marietta is really coming around. We're very keen on redevelopment in this area and we hope to continue working in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marietta is really coming around. We're very keen on redevelopment in this area and we hope to continue working in this area for at least another few years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond   Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this trip, whereas before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this trip, whereas before he had shown no interest at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item></channel></rss>