<?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[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man whose authority is recent is always stern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man whose authority is recent is always stern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20203]]></link><description><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,  And I am something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23265]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,  And I am something curious, being strange,   To have them in sale stowage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56069]]></link><description><![CDATA[And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038</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[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. We just haven't been getting the practice time, but the guys are trying to stay sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47151]]></link><description><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last3 presidential elections do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20110]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38714]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the floor and we were able to do that tonight. But one thing we didn't do was take advantage of our height. We will need to do a better job of that against Perryville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653</guid></item></channel></rss>