<?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[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all love a mystery, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all love a mystery,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, than thinking about it too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young's Farm . . . was always a special place. It is a very unique property. We really felt an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young's Farm . . . was always a special place. It is a very unique property. We really felt an obligation and an opportunity to do something special up there and continue the legacy of the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214]]></link><description><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they are trying to keep data safe and something happens anyway, they shouldn't be subject to lawsuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31522]]></link><description><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... We're going to respect that. There will be plenty of time for us later to lay out our legal arguments and examine the evidence and search for answers in this case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral the only ones you'll hear are the ones that are controversial or inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was dramatic. The big thing you look for on special teams is changing field position. When your team is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32845]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was dramatic. The big thing you look for on special teams is changing field position. When your team is struggling, a big play in the kicking game can give your team a spark. We didn't get enough of that last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After your death you will be what you were before your birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4255]]></link><description><![CDATA[After your death you will be what you were before your birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sense of autonomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38389]]></link><description><![CDATA[sense of autonomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16216]]></link><description><![CDATA[New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item></channel></rss>