<?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[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13144]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping the team get a 'W' today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921</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[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45041]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47425]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I wouldn't want to do anything else. I love playing defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29893]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now to the first semester of 2006, our economy is still bumpy, thus the monetary sector would still be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30898]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now to the first semester of 2006, our economy is still bumpy, thus the monetary sector would still be tight. After the first semester of 2006, the economy will start moving. We will see whether or not the tight monetary policy needs to be relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,   And 'tis beloved of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to incorporate classes that will benefit the mothers into our schedule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item></channel></rss>