<?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[It was a big win because today we found a way to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big win because today we found a way to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final results won't be ready and ratified until a few days into next January after completing the investigation into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final results won't be ready and ratified until a few days into next January after completing the investigation into all complaints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20284]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55595]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40015]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams -- he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30865]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams -- he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times -- and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list.] I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736]]></link><description><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[crisis between America and its allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33842]]></link><description><![CDATA[crisis between America and its allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765]]></link><description><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:   A village like an instinct left to rust,    Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We need to get to the place that isSeparate from what you've ever doneSeparate from what you'll ever doThe place you know isRIGHTFORYOU]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385</guid></item></channel></rss>