<?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[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take shots at you from the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's time to exorcise thelegionswhich have entered Karmazinthrough spirit lesions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools of the trade]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574]]></link><description><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better competition will make us perform better. You play really good teams to prepare for the playoffs, and we want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better competition will make us perform better. You play really good teams to prepare for the playoffs, and we want to try and make every game seem like the championship game. That's the approach we need to take into every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;   And what is it all, when all is done?    The net of the fisher the burden breaks,     And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie   In veneration and the people's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42448]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry and if you don't have a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic you might as well not show up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535]]></link><description><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sun has not yet set for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50564]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sun has not yet set for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still excited about this team. We have a full week of practice with these guys, which helps. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still excited about this team. We have a full week of practice with these guys, which helps. I know the kids are going to represent us and play hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least hold out until the last minute to book rooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both well laden. The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear. He entreated his companion to relieve him of a small portion, that he might carry home the rest; but the Mule paid no attention to the request. The Ass shortly afterwards fell down dead under his burden. Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him. The Mule, groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: I am treated according to my deserts. If I had only been willing to assist the Ass a little in his need, I should not now be bearing, together with his burden, himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27247</guid></item></channel></rss>