<?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[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to spot serve tonight. Maggie (Cooper) played really well, and we passed better as a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to spot serve tonight. Maggie (Cooper) played really well, and we passed better as a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56892]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63161]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24102]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome in thy singing,    Thou also soon shalt lie     Where no sweet notes are ringing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37426]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8416]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some real good looks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some real good looks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42034]]></link><description><![CDATA[With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12089]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is a big deal and we are very familiar with it because we operate in that world today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is a big deal and we are very familiar with it because we operate in that world today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed    That any did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43993]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66740]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38126]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb County now! We need that place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869]]></link><description><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13849]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21406]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38190]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep working on the cars, trying to extract speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item></channel></rss>