<?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[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought   That one might almost say her body thought.   - Dr. John Donne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38424]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532]]></link><description><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a nightmare for the entire nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a place like Russia. [Say] some crook steals it, he sells it to Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Laden brings it to Cleveland, or Boston, or L.A., and blows it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!   What man can look on Death unterrified?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even to go for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38346]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, (trainers) Rick Burkholder and Chris Peduzzi know more than I do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, (trainers) Rick Burkholder and Chris Peduzzi know more than I do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless us every one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4316]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless us every one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting to see them get to the semifinals and step it up. We really represented. The whole town of Greeley just did awesome. There were a lot of tough teams here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into Ivy League schools. That's a pretty lofty goal and it's going to take a lot of time and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is an incredible athlete. I'm honored to have the opportunity to coach her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item></channel></rss>