<?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[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19229]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632]]></link><description><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.  Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings--   This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. We weren't aggressive enough, and we didn't take enough shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64612]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sign of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36635]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sign of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, and I think they know what kind of person I am. ... I think I feel as secure as I can be, given the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,   Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,    Shriller than trumpets under the Law,     Now a sermon and now a prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It could be bloody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juan will always love Washington and the entire Washington area because he has so many great memories there. But he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Juan will always love Washington and the entire Washington area because he has so many great memories there. But he's excited about going to Portland, where he'll have the opportunity to expand his game and be a part of a young and improving team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. [Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas  Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident   With purple sanguine bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123</guid></item></channel></rss>