<?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[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5832]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58274]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,   By paved fountain or by rushy brook,    Or in the beached margent of the sea,     To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,      But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a personal bias. If the dog weighs less than 40 or 45 pounds, they will probably have trouble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a personal bias. If the dog weighs less than 40 or 45 pounds, they will probably have trouble encountering logs or heavy brush or tall grass. It doesn't mean they can't do it, but they're limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64129]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309]]></link><description><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37056]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart:  She gives me cream with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart:  She gives me cream with all her might   To eat with apple-tart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action makes more fortune than caution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action makes more fortune than caution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11090]]></link><description><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing is the willingness for everyone to buy in and do their roles. One of the special things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing is the willingness for everyone to buy in and do their roles. One of the special things about this team is it's not about me, it's not about Eric Staal, it's about the team. If I can do my role and be great in my role - and be productive - it makes our team better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41014</guid></item></channel></rss>