<?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[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to get one in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to get one in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,   Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,    Supply their little feeble aids in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58617]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitching staff is probably the biggest question mark for us, because we don't have anybody coming back that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitching staff is probably the biggest question mark for us, because we don't have anybody coming back that was dominant last season, that had 10 wins, they you can say, 'Hey give this guy the ball and he'll go out there and give us a win.' We don't have Brian Baker anymore. We've got some guys that are talented and we'll probably have to use more guys and develop some roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking about is how do you find one person, among 20-some million in Iraq, who has the ability to move. That's very difficult, but that's the war we're in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in the ocean   Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,    Although she lave them hourly in the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601</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[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one and the other, a sea;--   Ah, never can fall from the days that have been    A gleam on the years that shall be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item></channel></rss>