<?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[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60838]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study nature, not books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study nature, not books]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005</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[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate him to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate him to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37375]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to find that in a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62328]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the town meeting. But I don't feel like that. I feel really bad for the victims and their families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since the days of the old regime.    And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,     I'd give--though it might seem bold--      A hundred years of the Golden Age       For a year of the Age of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35218]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across genres but across generations as well, ... It's inspiring to see so many albums, songs, and music makers getting due recognition from their peers, as well as such a cross section of genres being recognized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101</guid></item></channel></rss>