<?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[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[This was West's first tournament of the year and the team did very well. I was extremely impressed with our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33359]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was West's first tournament of the year and the team did very well. I was extremely impressed with our doubles performances. We came away with a first place, second place, and first place consolation in the doubles side of the draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996]]></link><description><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .   Sabbathless Satan!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66030]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25474]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65970]]></link><description><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released fromhis present service and provided with another master. Jupiter,after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him tobe sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he hadheavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, hepetitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling himthat it would be the last time that he could grant his request,ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he hadfallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation,said, groaning: It would have been better for me to have beeneither starved by the one, or to have been overworked by theother of my former masters, than to have been bought by mypresent owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, andmake me useful to him.He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, to recognize love. Even when we hold it....in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item></channel></rss>