<?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[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64601]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;  But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness,   Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of indicators that show that the economy has accelerated considerably in the first quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34762]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of indicators that show that the economy has accelerated considerably in the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33298]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships feare fire more then water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships feare fire more then water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,   Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.    There we grow early gray, but never wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have had three really good meetings and we are still visiting. There will be an announcement next week. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have had three really good meetings and we are still visiting. There will be an announcement next week. That was at my request because I want this recruiting class to get all of the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31712</guid></item></channel></rss>