<?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[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don'tknow anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don'tknow anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54907]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek,   And just as sure to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38914]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tennessee Titans played in Memphis until their stadium was ready in Nashville. The Carolina Panthers played in South Carolina ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Titans played in Memphis until their stadium was ready in Nashville. The Carolina Panthers played in South Carolina at Clemson before moving to Charlotte, N.C. We're not looking that far ahead, but it's a possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please quiet down?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just coming from playing in a hostile atmosphere, we knew Louisville was going to be tough. It really helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just coming from playing in a hostile atmosphere, we knew Louisville was going to be tough. It really helped us a lot. We learned from the Syracuse game that we have to be poised at all times. We didn't want to be down but it just helped us tremendously, that Syracuse game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23906]]></link><description><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, we shall never be united. If God does not will that we should be united, what can our devices for producing it avail? Whereas, if we believe that it is His will, and that we are fighting against His will by our divisions, we have a right confidently to hope that He will at last bring us to repentance, or, if we do not repent, will accomplish His purposes in spite of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56318]]></link><description><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item></channel></rss>