<?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[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really feel like I helped myself at the combine. To be able to play against the best in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29071]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really feel like I helped myself at the combine. To be able to play against the best in the country, and stay right with them, I think that helped me. I thought I might go later, around (selection number) 24 or 25. But 17 works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29139]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive and always positive, so that's always a good thing. When she is up, the team is also up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,   Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--    For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, HR departments have had trouble with employees abusing sabbaticals or asking to cash out of the benefit and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, HR departments have had trouble with employees abusing sabbaticals or asking to cash out of the benefit and just keep working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but that was a hell of a deal. That's not something you see on your average recruiting trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;  Bleak blows the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;  Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it.   So have your breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21971]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13905]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is forever England. There shall be   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,     Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,      A body of England's, breathing English air,       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44264]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away,    An echo of Niagara     The cataract of Niagara.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715]]></link><description><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1710]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;  But thinks, admitted to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12666]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;  But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,   His faithful dog shall bear him company.    Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense     Weigh thy opinion against Providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assaile who will, the valiant attends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assaile who will, the valiant attends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49138</guid></item></channel></rss>