<?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[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25078]]></link><description><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965]]></link><description><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your best foot forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your best foot forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,   For lo! my own shall come to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938]]></link><description><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we have. You can draw a lot of positives from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next set of opportunities and values are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.   "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then    It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent     Verse to the paper; how they printed it      In Poet's Corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45804]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314</guid></item></channel></rss>