<?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[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young players in the league and he's a guy to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be taken seriously you need the ability to make fun of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53379]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be taken seriously you need the ability to make fun of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame is pride's cloak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame is pride's cloak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17986]]></link><description><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2399]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42223]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27423]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48187]]></link><description><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun,  It gives a light to every age,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun,  It gives a light to every age,   It gives, but borrows none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries is taken care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4099]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then, all of a sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man, those ducks really take off! Also, Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within the moonlight in his room,   Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,    An angel, writing in a book of gold;     Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,      And to the presence in the room he said--       "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head,        And, with a look made all of sweet accord,         Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61101</guid></item></channel></rss>