<?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[Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me--  (When fortune's malice   Lost her Calais)--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me--  (When fortune's malice   Lost her Calais)--    Open my heart and you will see     Graved inside of it, "Italy."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23095</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[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achilles absent, was Achilles still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achilles absent, was Achilles still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That team is tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a good team. The opportunities were definitely there. We got some great defensive stops, but we couldn't convert on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore   Were on the new world set ashore,    He made it next his chief design     To plant and propagate a vine,      Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd       Far greater number, on dry ground,        Of wretched mankind, one by one,         Than all the flood before had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19423]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness -- and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5342]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46567]]></link><description><![CDATA[If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46567</guid></item></channel></rss>