<?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 losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63880]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13757]]></link><description><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 percent of the [branded] price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot  Of right or hope; but still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot  Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer   Right onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716]]></link><description><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26823]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item></channel></rss>