<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12671]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye!   Over the table,--look out for the lamp!    The rogue is growing a little old;     Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,      And slept out-doors when nights were cold,       And ate and drank and starved together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. But the infield defense was really solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger;  And danger, like an ague, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger;  And danger, like an ague, subtly taints   Even then when we sit idly in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked it up pretty well but we didn't run through blocks and open up some holes. If we could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40370]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked it up pretty well but we didn't run through blocks and open up some holes. If we could just do that it would be a lot better and give Tony or Austin (Scott) a chance to just break past the line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has not attained its noone.    . . . .     We have short time to stay as you,      We have as short a spring;       As quick a growth to meet decay        As you or anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your own home. He (Woods) is probably going to want to redevelop the whole piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the governor expects you're going to be ready to address those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740]]></link><description><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overthrowing the Deby regime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be created out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be created out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519</guid></item></channel></rss>