<?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[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26798]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's going in like it was tonight the basket tends to look a lot bigger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's going in like it was tonight the basket tends to look a lot bigger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a growing number of HDTV channels to be delivered by satellite pay-TV providers in 2006, those pay-TV providers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42643]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a growing number of HDTV channels to be delivered by satellite pay-TV providers in 2006, those pay-TV providers are looking to the higher capacity enabled by DVB-S2 for more efficient HD channel delivery. In 2009, we expect satellite set-top boxes with next-generation advanced modulation technologies to account for 30% of the worldwide satellite set-top box unit shipments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19529]]></link><description><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing but negative advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/195]]></link><description><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matter what happened at the other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39266]]></link><description><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859]]></link><description><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth   By labours of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still believe the outlook is very bright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still believe the outlook is very bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case is usual in persons of quiet natural tempers, who have had the advantage of education under means of light and grace. God ofttimes, in such persons, begins and carries on the work of his grace insensibly, so that they come to good growth and maturity before they know that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23808]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item></channel></rss>