<?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[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13753]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attacks against coalition forces have definitely gone down. Our attacks against the enemy have gone up. Attacks against civilians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attacks against coalition forces have definitely gone down. Our attacks against the enemy have gone up. Attacks against civilians over time has gone up,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47805]]></link><description><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6883]]></link><description><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to talk with me
I got you to kiss goodnight
I got you to hold me tight
I got you, I won't let go
I got you to love me so
I got you babe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day you come to practice you can learn something from [NHL head coaches], and I think I've been doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day you come to practice you can learn something from [NHL head coaches], and I think I've been doing that for the last 13 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have seen the worst and that the industry is poised for a rebound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item></channel></rss>