<?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[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2701]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16095]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53204]]></link><description><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11522]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of momentum if the game is close. Rochester played us tough and made a lot of shots they needed to. We needed to dig down deep and play well defensively to get some stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning smile makes winners of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning smile makes winners of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions totheir needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. Hedemonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved,the crisis overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20811]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2471</guid></item></channel></rss>