<?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[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor without deserving;   To other some, deserving without honor;    Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;     Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very pleased to report an adjusted net profit for what is seasonally our weakest quarter. Our people are working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very pleased to report an adjusted net profit for what is seasonally our weakest quarter. Our people are working hard to provide excellent value for our customers and improve efficiency. Add to that a fare environment that allows us to recover a greater portion of our high fuel costs, and we've got a great start to the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,    And no dear mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721</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[To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58418]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One option currently under consideration by SGA is to charge students who wish to use the Stingerette for off-campus travel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33090]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One option currently under consideration by SGA is to charge students who wish to use the Stingerette for off-campus travel an additional fee.] We would like to look at the possibility of having students who rode the Stingerette swipe their BuzzCard for off-campus driving, ... There might be reasons it could not work, but we think it's definitely something worth looking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take thee?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21753]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65540</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[To do nothing is also a good remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do nothing is also a good remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there is not a day,   The longest, not the twenty-first of June,    Sees half the business in a wicked way,     On which three single hours of moonshine smile--      And then she looks so modest all the while!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for next year. But we are not getting free agents if it's not the right fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Issues can be addressed without the interference of a third party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Issues can be addressed without the interference of a third party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28048]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62086</guid></item></channel></rss>