<?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[I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products on contract for a length of time. The link of the contract is something that is based on the volatility of a particular product, and the price of zinc has been going up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8652]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God and sinners reconciled.!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all eat;   Blest, therefore, be God for our meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew it was over after that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13205]]></link><description><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--      "I almost that that I could eat one raw."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine   My message will go kissingly to thine,    With more than Fancy's load of luxury,     And prove a true love-letter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's done enough this time in and will be spelled until the end of January and brought back for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37015]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's done enough this time in and will be spelled until the end of January and brought back for the jumping season next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially on defense in the first half against everyone we play, we try to use our feet to get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially on defense in the first half against everyone we play, we try to use our feet to get into the right positions and we did that very well as a team. The whole team really jelled together in this game on defense. We didn't allow Elma to have a whole lot of open looks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22487]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be theconsequence, and pains to be coveted that will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be theconsequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greaterpleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress  Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,   And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,    That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59334]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of teams out there have these great records, but who did they play? We played those teams with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of teams out there have these great records, but who did they play? We played those teams with the thought that it would prepare us for the playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225]]></link><description><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997]]></link><description><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9753]]></link><description><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. We have an opportunity to get it right and that's important to the entire nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item></channel></rss>