<?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[Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last the word is out that Somalia may be a next likely target.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[very optimistic for the strong momentum we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35145]]></link><description><![CDATA[very optimistic for the strong momentum we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63094]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should change your name. That's a silly stance to take, because you're just going to disappoint people. Your early stuff is what people really attached themselves to. There aren't any songs that we won't play because we don't like them and don't think they're good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just nice to get out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30839]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just nice to get out and play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37976]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224</guid></item></channel></rss>