<?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[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortunately, with the bases loaded, he was able to hit a home run for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15253]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Clo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55769]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Clo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819]]></link><description><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour,  As he that has two strings t' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51960]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour,  As he that has two strings t' his bow,   And burns for love and money too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report is complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability to draw the maps themselves they can carve out districts that are very precisely drawn to favor their future political interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64167]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really didn't want to get that far back but the turns were really tough, I didn't really run them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really didn't want to get that far back but the turns were really tough, I didn't really run them right. I'm a long-strider and I had to shorten them up. I felt really uncomfortable on the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Upon a little reflection one can see that no concepts which are restricted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Upon a little reflection one can see that no concepts which are restricted to Christianity could possibly be found in a language spoken only by pagans. How could pagans have developed words for Christian ideas which have never occurred to them? This identical situation existed when the Holy Spirit inspired the New Testament. At that time many pagan words, with pagan-thought background, were used in Christian contexts; by the contexts the present Christian meaning eventually built up, until it was possible to express all the Christian meaning in the pagan terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12427</guid></item></channel></rss>