<?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[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the next level. Even if he is, realistically, he's not going to be there in the next year. It's going to take a couple years for him to develop into that. Garnett, as great as he is, is still going to take a lot of shots on the perimeter. The point guard is even more critical on a team without a dominant post presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investment banking team will be first on the ground, fixed income and equities will be the next phase. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investment banking team will be first on the ground, fixed income and equities will be the next phase. We'll do some transfers and we'll hire some people locally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47376]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thins eyes. Grant us with true judgment to distinguish things that differ, and above all to search out and do what is well pleasing unto Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of people score and that's a plus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of people score and that's a plus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had to pick the top five courses of my entire experience, two of them were online. I know that with the right instructor and set-up, learning online can be just as fulfilling, if not more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another'sstate of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25930]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,   Is studded with its trembling water-drops,    That glimmer with an amethystine light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no containment on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no containment on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item></channel></rss>