<?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[Nothing will work unless you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will work unless you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad luck there, Ricky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad luck there, Ricky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional funds she is proposing will accelerate some of the highest priority actions on the ground, while the new public-private partnership will build the broader coalition needed to safeguard the future of this great natural area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept has been around for a long time, but it's just crept its way into mainstream employment benefits in the last few decades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns in the air, ... These are people who are thinking through problems in how to cause destruction, for a well-thought-through political strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of last year's surprise, the company decided to go ahead and manufacture extra doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of last year's surprise, the company decided to go ahead and manufacture extra doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15642</guid></item></channel></rss>