<?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[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night rebounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   That for an hermitage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60022]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8018]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out,  As if they feared the light:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out,  As if they feared the light:   But oh! she dances such a way!    No sun upon an Easter day     Is half so fine a sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of split minutes up and we were still happy. We really miss those guys a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents    The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents    The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through all the weary hours,   And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,     Into one beautiful and perfect whole;      And life's long night is ended, and the way       Lies open onward to eternal day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18344]]></link><description><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  I will tell you what to hate: hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, oppression, injustice; hate pharisaism. Hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, godlike hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973</guid></item></channel></rss>