<?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[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being able to deliver the quality we are known for traditionally in the classroom over the Web.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I am speaking the opportunity is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50812]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Portia has already made history, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Portia has already made history, and looks set to consolidate her place in the history books of the future by becoming Jamaica's first female prime minister. She has proven herself to be a likeable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy of this place in history and will serve as an inspiration for women the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host this huge party presenting the best of what Broadway has to offer. And I'm thrilled to share the stage with John Lithgow, whose work I'm a huge fan of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest."   And I make answer: "I am satisfied;    I dare not ask; I know not what is best;     God hath already said what shall betide."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59456</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[Last year we had a lot of egos. We had some issues. We don't have that this year. This team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we had a lot of egos. We had some issues. We don't have that this year. This team genuinely likes each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12647]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. -Douglas MacArthur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertex shares may not be for the faint-hearted at these price levels. However, the hepatitis C derby is just that: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertex shares may not be for the faint-hearted at these price levels. However, the hepatitis C derby is just that: a race. Should Vertex not stumble or encounter unforeseen obstacles prior to approval, $35 will wind up looking like an early exit point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13805]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8690</guid></item></channel></rss>