<?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[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40572]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of gave us some relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have lots of warning in a matter of months, or we could have limited warning in a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38724]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have lots of warning in a matter of months, or we could have limited warning in a matter of weeks. It's very difficult to tell so we have to focus on surveillance as prevention and on response and recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51482]]></link><description><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective. Long-term interest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42199]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective. Long-term interest rates are coming down slightly, moving from 7 percent to about 6.95 percent at the this point in time. So the market isn't worried about inflation. The market thinks the Fed's decision was right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340]]></link><description><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37578]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47973]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real hard for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail built up and exploded creating him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328]]></link><description><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,   And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired child who had,   Playing with flowers, lost its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satanic school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Satanic school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17094]]></link><description><![CDATA[With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25452]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item></channel></rss>