<?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[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15633]]></link><description><![CDATA[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33185]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gin was mother's milk to her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gin was mother's milk to her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5002]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need for preprinted cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will continue to be an integral part of the country's social fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to wipe this one away as quickly as possible. I only threw 79 pitches, so I feel like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30708]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to wipe this one away as quickly as possible. I only threw 79 pitches, so I feel like I'll be healthy for the Yankees. ... You always hope for the opportunity. So, we'll see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49127]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9342]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kinds of problems tend to cool investors' buying sentiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39856]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kinds of problems tend to cool investors' buying sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're continuing with the conversion process and, beginning the end of this month, recipients will begin using new cards and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're continuing with the conversion process and, beginning the end of this month, recipients will begin using new cards and taxpayers will save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52018]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath of the middle of Israeli politics there are going to be innumerable theories of what he might have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item></channel></rss>