<?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[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36849]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. With the exception of the labor market data, which will continue to stink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not stuff you do when you're worrying about an election, ... As he looks at these projects, he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not stuff you do when you're worrying about an election, ... As he looks at these projects, he doesn't ever say, 'Let's do less and rest on the record.' The guy continues to lead with his chin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4273]]></link><description><![CDATA[birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13567]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/355]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51360]]></link><description><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't hear me, he'll say 'What?'. So I'll say it again, but once again he doesn't hear me, so he says 'What?'. But really it's just some insignificant sh*t that I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, 'That tree is far away.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65678]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It isabsolutely touch and go. Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It isabsolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't see that in Canada, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28657]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't see that in Canada,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may make a foul bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may make a foul bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63776]]></link><description><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</guid></item></channel></rss>