<?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[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand solutions and services that are channel-ready, as well as offering partner programs that truly stimulate an ecosystem of growth, collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to being the IT industry's partner of choice and we are honored that the Business Partner community selected IBM as the company they most want to partner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116]]></link><description><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they were prejudiced against the meanness of our Saviour's birth and condition, and had upon false grounds (though, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they were prejudiced against the meanness of our Saviour's birth and condition, and had upon false grounds (though, as they thought, upon the infallibility of tradition and of Scripture interpreted by tradition) entertained quite other notions of the Messiah from what he was really to be, because they were proud and thought themselves too wise to learn of him, and because his doctrine of humility and selfdenial did thwart their interest and bring down their authority and credit among the people; therefore they set themselves against him with all their might, opposing his doctrine and blasting his reputation and persecuting him to the death: and all this while did bear up themselves with a conceit of the antiquity and privileges of their church, and their profound knowledge in the laws of God, and a great external show of piety and devotion and an arrogant presence and usurpation of being the only church and people of God in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24944]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9303]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   And rest I well know where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19412]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns in the air, ... These are people who are thinking through problems in how to cause destruction, for a well-thought-through political strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She concedes that she's the one she pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27884]]></link><description><![CDATA[She concedes that she's the one she pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54967</guid></item></channel></rss>