<?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[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy weeps them out again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26290]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,rich or poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,rich or poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,   Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;    His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,     And yet beside to all that hunger greved,      His gates were open, and they were there relived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Guard or any service is there for that reason. It's a job and it's what the military requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Guard or any service is there for that reason. It's a job and it's what the military requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33427]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take risk with other, newer merchandise. We've just gotten a lot better at managing our inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to do too much. You want to stay on the field, so you try to make plays happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700]]></link><description><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the upper end of the range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41845]]></link><description><![CDATA[the upper end of the range.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566</guid></item></channel></rss>