<?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[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories that I've experienced in golf,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great cook - great Mexican food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended our mandatory training and orientation. There is in fact no connection to be made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves of Blarney They look so charming  Down by the purling   Of sweet, silent brooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves of Blarney They look so charming  Down by the purling   Of sweet, silent brooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925]]></link><description><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,   Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,    Delivers in such apt and gracious words,     That aged ears play truant at his tales,      And younger hearings are quite ravished,       So sweet and voluble is his discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not sad, Sing, Sing a song, Make it simple, To last your whole life long, Don't worry that it's not good enough, For anyone else to hear, Sing, Sing a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37879]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose   Those made not poets, but the poets those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the lowest form of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the lowest form of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their No. 1 strength is to run the ball. They run the Wing-T, which is always difficult to defend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their No. 1 strength is to run the ball. They run the Wing-T, which is always difficult to defend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew all along this team could be at the top and remain at the top, because we definitely have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew all along this team could be at the top and remain at the top, because we definitely have the personnel. If we put our mind to it, play 'D' and do all the right things, play for each other, we shouldn't lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29628</guid></item></channel></rss>