<?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[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, For villany is not without such rheum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, For villany is not without such rheum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear,  Disclose the long-expecting flowers,   And wake the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear,  Disclose the long-expecting flowers,   And wake the purple year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.  Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind,   For we go seeking cities that we shall never find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could pitch in the big leagues with this stuff, but it's not worth it to go down and hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could pitch in the big leagues with this stuff, but it's not worth it to go down and hope somebody would want me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is very good right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is very good right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51075]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making bright the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lasteth long as the money endureth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lasteth long as the money endureth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a campus atmosphere, where employees are able to bounce ideas off each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a campus atmosphere, where employees are able to bounce ideas off each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from anattitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24836]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24836</guid></item></channel></rss>