<?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 first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54078]]></link><description><![CDATA[By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44845]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23782]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is the single most expressive feeling a person can have. Losing that love suddenly, can be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is the single most expressive feeling a person can have. Losing that love suddenly, can be the most painful feeling a person can have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36296]]></link><description><![CDATA[These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;  What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;   On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People are shooting!,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a man's face, I now   Say what I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foot in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18202]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foot in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been a real shot in the arm for the tie business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35655]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been a real shot in the arm for the tie business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35655</guid></item></channel></rss>