<?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 vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64295]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. This will be the first one that I'll play in after being picked for the past three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space to fall further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if they feel they're not going to win. The system is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condo market is going very well here in Tucson. Prices are escalating, and tenants have a great opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condo market is going very well here in Tucson. Prices are escalating, and tenants have a great opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27104]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   And ran dismayed away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way through the night. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. If I could do this all over again and have this wonderful child, I would. She's a miracle from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item></channel></rss>