<?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[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring--   Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36767]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595]]></link><description><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... That same philosophy that allowed us to win the space race slowed us down after the space race. The same people were in charge, the same philosophy was there. There was no incentive to make it economical or commercially feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64911]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48458]]></link><description><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a native of Wisconsin, he knows our state. We are getting a very well-rounded and bright person to join our staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they got me out there in the package, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they got me out there in the package,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item></channel></rss>