<?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[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's last man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   Mercy I askt, mercy I found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with delights which present are,   Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose   Those made not poets, but the poets those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings,   When, from the orchard-row, he pours    Its fragrance through our open doors;     A world of blossoms for the bee,      Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,       For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,        We plant with the apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft  Ermattet endlich.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13782]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13782</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[Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. I have no regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes you get in and sometimes you don't. But the judges do the best they can. If they saw something that kept me out of the top three, I have to respect that and keep working on my riding. All I can do is improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41892</guid></item></channel></rss>