<?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[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1232]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33523]]></link><description><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big hit by that kid. He did a good job. I think he was on base all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66223]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59226]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd   Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;    That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)     Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at Yale. His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23050</guid></item></channel></rss>