<?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[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are convinced that the all-new Volvo S80 will be a very strong contender that will win over many new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are convinced that the all-new Volvo S80 will be a very strong contender that will win over many new customers. We expect 70 percent of the average volume of 50 000 cars a year to be purchased by customers who do not drive a Volvo today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  It should be noted, at least by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  It should be noted, at least by those who accept Christ's claim to be God, that he by no means fits into the picture of the "mystic saint". Those who are fascinated by the supposed superiority of the mystic soul might profitably compile a list of its characteristics and place them side by side with those of Christ. The results would probably expose a surprising conclusion. There is, in fact, no provision for a "privileged class" in genuine Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606]]></link><description><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlie played a great game. It was his opportunity and he hasn't let us down. He had lost three times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charlie played a great game. It was his opportunity and he hasn't let us down. He had lost three times to Roddick, and this was his day to beat him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you first meet him you often find him to be annoying, and you have to control yourself not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33647]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you first meet him you often find him to be annoying, and you have to control yourself not to say anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ordeal, but we're going home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ordeal, but we're going home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed free throws and other opportunities hurt us. It was disappointing because this was a game we could have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these courts and in order to continue using them we need to work together so that the courts stay in good condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower,   The breeze is on the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. But the only way you can get it is by earning it. We don't mind doing that. That's what we've had to do all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for short-term profit-taking. The correction we've seen is very small relative to the rally we've seen in the last few weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, but if there is another bidder we will have to make a decision then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39701</guid></item></channel></rss>