<?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[Drink boys, drink boys, Drive away your sorrow! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink boys, drink boys, Drive away your sorrow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15097]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover   She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into the background and seems to disappear more and more. Modern thought is impersonal. There are, even today, a great many people who understand that man needs salvation, but there are very few who are convinced that he needs forgiveness and redemption... Sin is understood as imperfection, sensuality, worldliness -- but not as guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695</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[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's truly a culture change for SAP. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's truly a culture change for SAP.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. You have to have excellent knowledge of the game and knowledge of the language. If not, the people will let you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47489]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26653]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is a really good way, a good tool to be able to access information and learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56308]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33932</guid></item></channel></rss>