<?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[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56959]]></link><description><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we would have to play a lot better than we did there. Our post players came up really big. It went exactly the way I thought it would except for the last five or six minutes, considering the kind of week we had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51097]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. No doubt the industry is much more stable business-wise because pay service has returned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27855]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile?   That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64443]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26823]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the highest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the highest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune;  Rhyme the pipe, and Time the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45261]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune;  Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,   The sun obeys them, and the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2429]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,   The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such as could be said   To be the most remote from common use,    In all these he was much and deeply read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be considered a breakthrough unless it first seemed a little ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62851</guid></item></channel></rss>