<?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 Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33010]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all potential alternatives, contacted every team, and tried to make the best deal we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all potential alternatives, contacted every team, and tried to make the best deal we could. I think there were a lot of teams, like us, that liked his talent, but found it hard to find a spot on their major league team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has left Pakistan feeling exposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19667]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43375]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives   Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--    Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.     . . . .      But by and by, when the flowers grow few       And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--        Out she comes in her matron grace         With the purple myriads of her race;          Full of plenty from root to crown,           Showering plenty her feet adown.            While far over head hang gorgeously             Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,              For the best grows highest, always highest,               Upon the mulberry-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their tails.   [Ger., Mit wenig Witz und viel Behagen    Dreht jeder sich im engen Zirkeltanz     Wie junge Katzen mit dem Schwanz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66753]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Push on,--keep moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Push on,--keep moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event sort of fades from view. Benedict is obviously determined that is not going to happen. He's trying very hard to make sure the focus is on the ritual, not the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, so doing, you have not evaded Him. If He is a man just like us, then obviously you must be a man like Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item></channel></rss>