<?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[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</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[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great   And to be really great are just the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794]]></link><description><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</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[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept for young players to grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side is probably not providing the right answers. Then you've got to back step and redesign things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and rejected is the heritage of virtue. We would be poor, too; but without privation. And doubtless we are patient; except with hardships and with disagreeables. And so with all the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training is useless unless you have a purpose, it's knowing for what purpose to train for that can break men's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Training is useless unless you have a purpose, it's knowing for what purpose to train for that can break men's fulfillment. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62664]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770]]></link><description><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1218]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2876]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591]]></link><description><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these few meters are not a problem, as they say, why don't they go back to the June 4, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29889]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these few meters are not a problem, as they say, why don't they go back to the June 4, 1967, line?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really just shuffling the problem around as opposed to dealing with the root cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really just shuffling the problem around as opposed to dealing with the root cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42167</guid></item></channel></rss>