<?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[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of turnover we used to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower  That scorns the eye of vulgar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower  That scorns the eye of vulgar light,   Begins to bloom for sons of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways:  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,   Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</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[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something else might have happened. I might not have put the ball in play. I'm comfortable where I am offensively, and I'm going to continue to spread the ball around the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn decorations all   Of the great tomb of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  As we shared together our feelings about the study groups, we realised that we were not meeting together each week for an intellectual exercise: some thing very real and significant was taking place. We were coming to know that the Christian faith is not primarily an ethic; it is not the struggle to do good or be good, but an encounter with Christ, of which morality and ethical living are by-products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5444]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,   Creating awe and fear in other men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. But he's under contract. Sometimes you have to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price. Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,    At the last of the thirty palace-gates     The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,      Orders a feast in his favorite room--       Glittering square of colored ice,        Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,         Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,          Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,           Limes and citrons and apricots,            And wines that are known to Eastern princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817</guid></item></channel></rss>