<?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[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6701</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 little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42674]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus Christ to America, but this society has become a post-Christian society and that is a dangerous thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14637]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31932]]></link><description><![CDATA[My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us flowing, ... With Gilbert, myself and Antonio, we pretty much have three guys who can run the point but all of us can also can penetrate and get to the basket or create shots for our teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134</guid></item></channel></rss>