<?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[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   Than when I was a boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That fired me up to want to play well, starting today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged   From the spongy south to this part of the west,    There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,     Unless my sins abuse my divination,      Success to th' Roman host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string,  Drew iron tears down Pluto's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string,  Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach sat us down after our bad start and told us we needed to come together as a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach sat us down after our bad start and told us we needed to come together as a team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26678]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some breakdowns defensively. A couple of them were in transition where we missed a shot and didn't match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some breakdowns defensively. A couple of them were in transition where we missed a shot and didn't match up well. We weren't shooting the ball great early and probably got a little bit frustrated and didn't pay attention in transition like we needed to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does have that ability (intimidation). He's a basket presence defender, but we don't want to get him to block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35469]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does have that ability (intimidation). He's a basket presence defender, but we don't want to get him to block to many shots because when you block a lot of shots it comes with a lot of whistles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item></channel></rss>