<?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[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902]]></link><description><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.  Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;   Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64714]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involveother people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the oneyou have, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21470]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involveother people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the oneyou have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46723]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55792]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes into sevens and turn things around in a positive way. It's nothing we're dwelling on. But it's something we have to get turned around and fix as we move on with the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissioners court has reached out to the public and sought input on future facilities. One of my goals as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissioners court has reached out to the public and sought input on future facilities. One of my goals as commissioner was to reach out and establish trusting relationships. With the facility subcommittee, we'll continue on and ultimately we'll do what the public wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351]]></link><description><![CDATA[On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These numbers prove once again the real power of a strong oncology franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33425]]></link><description><![CDATA[These numbers prove once again the real power of a strong oncology franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I prefer a team to a collection of stars. As a manager, you can never depend on one player. If he is injured, sick or thinks 'today I won't work' then you will lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244]]></link><description><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you will see that next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item></channel></rss>