<?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[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46774]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not give to those who will not spend... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not give to those who will not spend...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18152]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.  God calleth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge   To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.    The worst speak something good. If all want sense,     God takes a text, and preaches patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is everything. What you think you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is everything. What you think you become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've been around long enough to realize the situation I was in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290</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[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving home from work. Imagine not knowing what you did for four entire days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57700]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760]]></link><description><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent,   And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who either didn't like it or weren't capable of using it to its fullest extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item></channel></rss>