<?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[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53017]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got a few stick backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort--disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest rates are just part of the costs in the real sector. With inflation starting to ease, we expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest rates are just part of the costs in the real sector. With inflation starting to ease, we expect that these costs can be reduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed   Was brow-bound with the oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time growing old teaches all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64405]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time growing old teaches all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They really liked the layout last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40072]]></link><description><![CDATA[They really liked the layout last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32897]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,   As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327</guid></item></channel></rss>