<?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[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31029]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team - said that if Poland beat Azerbaijan 8-0, England should score at least eight and he'd score five of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is father of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is father of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and breadth of the profit recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things whichmatter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things whichmatter least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as coaches very well. He has also become a great friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992]]></link><description><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm conscious that our resources didn't always get on time, I assume the errors and I apologize to those people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39086]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm conscious that our resources didn't always get on time, I assume the errors and I apologize to those people that were missing these resources which we simply didn't have at that moment,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35207]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something big. I just felt I had to go upper-body and throw him ... This is awesome to win three [WPIAL team titles]. It's just like winning the other two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each time she was there   That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .    Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping     In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .      And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day       This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,        This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square         The last time we met was in utter despair          Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750]]></link><description><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision introduced into the Chinese Constitution in March 2004.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26283</guid></item></channel></rss>