<?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[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration on either end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi  Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se   Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know how busy other mayors are, but these types of things, if I'm notified early enough, I'll definitely keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know how busy other mayors are, but these types of things, if I'm notified early enough, I'll definitely keep my calendar open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much that distracts them. They have the right focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breathand say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39541]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide some kind of model. Not just for the metropolitan area but for the nation as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining totally out of touch in the Big Brother house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Cantor Fitzgerald issue is a serious hurdle. Without that [quote service], Dow Jones [Markets] doesn't have much of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Cantor Fitzgerald issue is a serious hurdle. Without that [quote service], Dow Jones [Markets] doesn't have much of a franchise. It's a key asset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make sure I really do leave this company in the best shape I can. After that, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make sure I really do leave this company in the best shape I can. After that, there are a number of options open that look to be quite exciting. But I doubt I'll be working full-time in the Vail Valley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28405</guid></item></channel></rss>