<?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[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63743]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,   And life is never the same again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University at home is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32375]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University at home is huge for us. We are playing seven teams that appeared in the NCAA tournament which creates a great schedule for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46467]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, it's faltering and hasn't picked up much momentum yet. Two million is just a drop in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35139]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, it's faltering and hasn't picked up much momentum yet. Two million is just a drop in the barrel in terms of what would be needed to have an impact and bring more attention to the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14236]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25522]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57386]]></link><description><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main objective I will have on behalf of this board is to keep Scripps in Palm Beach County. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main objective I will have on behalf of this board is to keep Scripps in Palm Beach County. But we're certainly not going to give away our firstborn to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   In wonder, love and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item></channel></rss>