<?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[An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2708]]></link><description><![CDATA[An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33602]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only wealth is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only wealth is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing   Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,    Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--     Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright      With tangled gossamer that fell by night,       Pearling his coronet of golden corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. But eight hours on a bus? That's crazy man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46498]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art banished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you 50% of the ROI, and the last 30% of that ROI equation is the people -- that's your change-management piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are periods when I'm out of it and have to stay in bed for a couple of days, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37619]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are periods when I'm out of it and have to stay in bed for a couple of days,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the consolidation at retail, manufacturers are looking at how they can have more control over their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42480]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the consolidation at retail, manufacturers are looking at how they can have more control over their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  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. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30635]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33853]]></link><description><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come and rather than hear about a solution, they can see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49660]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42575]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619</guid></item></channel></rss>