<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5033]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing what is available out there to present to your employees and having access to various types of information about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing what is available out there to present to your employees and having access to various types of information about plans is vitally important. We have to encourage employees to participate and modernize their contributions to savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him fry in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him fry in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our own shadows forever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27868]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61622]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in the last repeating troublesome,   Being urged at a time unreasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty solid. I think I can step in right away and do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item></channel></rss>