<?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[As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro,  And having met, drift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26804]]></link><description><![CDATA[As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro,  And having met, drift once again apart,   So, fleeting is the intercourse of men.    E'en as a traveler meeting with the shade     Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes,      Then leaves its shelter to pursue his ways,       So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784]]></link><description><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles far and wee]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141]]></link><description><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694]]></link><description><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our season high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the two segments of the financial services industry that we think have the best fundamentals. And we stick by that advice right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart must now be grieved to see   The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941]]></link><description><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909</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[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2488]]></link><description><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont mene la charrue.    Mais, las de cultiver enfin     La terre labouree      L'une a detele le matin,       L'autre l'apres-dinee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our success. By continuing to expand our array of quality products, and fulfilling our promise to consistently deliver outstanding customer service and product quality, we are attempting to meet the needs of our customers and as a result, also expand our sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain,    And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,     And natural in gesture; much impress'd      Himself, as conscious of his awful charge,       And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds        May feel it too; affectionate in look,         And tender in address, as well becomes          A messenger of grace to guilty men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attempt and not the deed confounds us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item></channel></rss>