<?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[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53544]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have thirty-one:    Unless that leap-year doth combine,     And give to February twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies safe for thee    A little nest on the ground."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That genre of music is one that anybody can at the very least tolerate and enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36845]]></link><description><![CDATA[That genre of music is one that anybody can at the very least tolerate and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in grace of our solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis for all these values, I went back and reread the New Testament the other day, from one side to the other, and make certain that I hadn't missed anything. You know what? In the three years of Jesus Christ's mission, of his ministry, there is no mention whatsoever — or even a hint — that you ought to be taking health care or educational opportunity away from children in order to give to the richest people in the world. None whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item></channel></rss>