<?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[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49376]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 Web sites in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55655]]></link><description><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55655</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[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42520]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves to be of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot and, finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a cloud in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn't have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21725]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42583]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known terror targets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15947]]></link><description><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513</guid></item></channel></rss>