<?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[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22539]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200]]></link><description><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With an industry leading product platform and a growing customer base, the need to continue to deliver exceptional customer service is paramount. We are delighted that Business Objects has selected Knova's service resolution management applications for customer service and look forward to a strong partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no friendship in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65779]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no friendship in trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39657]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ability to grind it out and play a physical way. Certainly, he was a real good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377</guid></item></channel></rss>