<?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[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people don't tell us if they have an infestation. Then they move out and someone else moves in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people don't tell us if they have an infestation. Then they move out and someone else moves in and that person has to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50763]]></link><description><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really hoping that everyone can stay healthy, ... because I feel that we have a team and a nucleus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really hoping that everyone can stay healthy, ... because I feel that we have a team and a nucleus that really can get us to where we want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left unchecked, it could have an impact on Wal-Mart's image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a huge transformational shift in the way consumers and businesses alike are signing up for non traditional phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a huge transformational shift in the way consumers and businesses alike are signing up for non traditional phone services -- and a unique offering like this enables them to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495]]></link><description><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56287]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32709]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of the wicked tempts many to sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2994</guid></item></channel></rss>