<?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[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10193]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49395]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties with things like time management.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53315]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39608]]></link><description><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,   For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am refreshed after the break, and ready to attack the final races of the year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am refreshed after the break, and ready to attack the final races of the year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203]]></link><description><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. He did outstanding for a young guy that was a little nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our 7:30 p.m. game. We still executed well by putting the bunt down and moving runners over. So that's getting better. And our defense played well behind Erica. So hopefully those will carry over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54347]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46925]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;   They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,    And flare up bodily, wings and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55819</guid></item></channel></rss>