<?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[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56659]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18112]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring--   Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;   And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.    [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:     Un amour eternel en un moment concu.      La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,       Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good wildlife management practices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us it is quite valueless, and has entirely failed; and, insofar as you and I are concerned, Christ was thrown away in vain. How, then, is it with you and me? Be very sure that upon Calvary it was no strange, immoral favouritism that came into operation, whereby because of some beliefs that remain mere dead letters, that produce no change whatever in their characters, some people living the same kind of life as others and following the same selfish interests and ends as they, are given a destiny entirely different. That is the vainest of vain dreams. Rather is this the supreme revelation of a new way of living life; and only those who -- blunderingly, it may be, yet honestly -- seek to adopt and imitate it can be counted really Christian folk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.   O Britain! infamous for suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The justice doesn't have any comment about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The justice doesn't have any comment about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26290]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you 50% of the ROI, and the last 30% of that ROI equation is the people -- that's your change-management piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12725]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28700]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29104</guid></item></channel></rss>