<?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[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue  Sounds ever after as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue  Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,   Rememb'red tolling a departing friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A penny spar'd is twice got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A penny spar'd is twice got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the world you will find it not;   It was fought by the mothers of men.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the mostgigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty years ago   Comes into grace again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range of $7,000]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a lot better player, getting in there more and getting to go against all of the hitters on the other team instead of just one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812]]></link><description><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50445]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22366]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented a Lion strangled by a Man. The traveler pointed to it and said: See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts. The Lion replied: This statue was made by one of you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion. One story is good, till another is told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61162]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini   In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter  Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau   All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56313]]></link><description><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game because we have one on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a real underserved market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a real underserved market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item></channel></rss>