<?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[Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56659]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50940]]></link><description><![CDATA[So obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps us out tremendously at both ends of the floor. They can provide us with that playoff, that championship, atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55494]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't hit my head. I like track a lot. I knew I wanted to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this for a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57211]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this for a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise counsell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and to shape its own beliefs. In all right efforts for the future, religion must be given first place. No provision to secure peace or just social principles can be worth much unless the foremost aim be to establish the Kingdom of God. It is not the minds and bodies only of generations to come that have to be remembered, but their immortal souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55638]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if Fortune fill thy sail    With more than a propitious gale,     Take half thy canvas in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The false lapwynge, full of trecherye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097</guid></item></channel></rss>