<?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[War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169</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[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to begin to whittle away at lead time. Long lead times just add cost to the entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to begin to whittle away at lead time. Long lead times just add cost to the entire supply chain. Short lead times reduce cost. It's real simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8631]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,   And Christmas shortens all our days:    Sometimes with oysters we combine,     Sometimes assist the savory chine;      From the low peasant to the lord,       The Turkey smokes on every board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  The pure, mere love of God is that alone from which sinners are justly to expect that no sin will pass unpunished, but that His love will visit them with every calamity and distress that can help to break and purify the bestial heart of man and awaken in him true repentance and conversion to God. It is love alone in the holy Deity that will allow no peace to the wicked, nor ever cease its judgments till every sinner is forced to confess that it is good for him that he has been in trouble, and thankfully own that not the wrath but the love of God has plucked out that right eye, cut off that right band, which he ought to have done but would not do for himself and his own salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he was a big part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket to win the game, so I had to put the ball in the basket. And backboard? No! I was trying to find the quickest way to put the ball in the basket, period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.I affirm only the best for myself and others.I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.I affirm only the best for myself and others.I am the creator of my life and my world.I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch and it gives us confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I have none to give; I love Thee, Lord, but all that love is Thine,  For by Thy life I live. I am as nothing, and rejoice to be Emptied and lost and swallowed up in Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20278]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58151</guid></item></channel></rss>