<?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[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38092]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned right into me with the right front (wheel). Now I've been Cheever-ed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40140]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57928]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item></channel></rss>