<?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[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28739]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9137]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63940]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60167]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for the leaves when laid   In their noonday dreams.    From my wings are shaken the dews that waken     The sweet buds every one,      When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,       As she dances about the sun.        I wield the flail of the lashing hail,         And whiten the green plains under,          And then again I dissolve it in rain,           And laugh as I pass in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612]]></link><description><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking, 'Wow, I'm really in here,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking, 'Wow, I'm really in here,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning smile makes winners of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning smile makes winners of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35758]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24592</guid></item></channel></rss>