<?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 more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down for the most part, and he got away with mistakes when they were up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony Blair has beena petroplutocrat pala petroplutocrat polGod give him a Road toDamascus experience today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tony Blair has beena petroplutocrat pala petroplutocrat polGod give him a Road toDamascus experience today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109]]></link><description><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring eyes:   Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.    Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,     Such screams to hear, such sights to see!      My brain, my brain,--I know, I know       I am not mad but soon shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13840]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a theme park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25016]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985</guid></item></channel></rss>