<?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[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo,  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that of cashier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers -- had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent, and incessant prayers for them -- they would have been much more in the way of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say she can beat them with a leg in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one preseason game. The seeding is done according to the number of power points. You can have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one preseason game. The seeding is done according to the number of power points. You can have a team with 22 games and they're still getting more points for losing games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. However, nothing really works well in terms of safety and tolerability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46036]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government and that it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government and that it takes responsibility for how to deal with the situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we can win every time he is on the mound. With Taylor on the mound, we feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we can win every time he is on the mound. With Taylor on the mound, we feel like we can win against anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of respect to Betty we couldn't think of a more appropriate name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of respect to Betty we couldn't think of a more appropriate name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he jumps in and he expected to work into the seventh every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do watch which files we send overseas. There are some [for which] you don't want to have foreign accents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35850]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do watch which files we send overseas. There are some [for which] you don't want to have foreign accents, such as our government title.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934</guid></item></channel></rss>