<?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[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. -Elizabeth Berg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847</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[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30812]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from Yemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Falstaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Falstaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning Christians will count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions ofincompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability tocreate. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completiondate, then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in basketball, too. We ran a tight ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing:  O see where wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing:  O see where wide the golden sunlight flows--   The barren desert blossoms as the rose!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item></channel></rss>