<?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[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40884]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time tofigure out whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went for the shoot and the guy responded with the same thing, but the referee didn't stop the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32266]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went for the shoot and the guy responded with the same thing, but the referee didn't stop the fight because Cliff was still active and defending himself and was well aware of everything despite the brutal punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And spare the poet for his subject's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46856]]></link><description><![CDATA[And spare the poet for his subject's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This merger accelerates our long-term earnings growth potential by expanding our Tennessee market. It will allow us to extend our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38504]]></link><description><![CDATA[This merger accelerates our long-term earnings growth potential by expanding our Tennessee market. It will allow us to extend our growing Knoxville-based presence toward Chattanooga and on to our existing north Georgia franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47002]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier effect, the pace is still slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23963]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;   Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table and dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access to information was really limited. We had fragmented data sources, inconsistent metrics across the business, model assumptions that were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Access to information was really limited. We had fragmented data sources, inconsistent metrics across the business, model assumptions that were different from business to business. It was a really fragmented way of doing business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32474</guid></item></channel></rss>