<?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[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47504]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were excited. These are the types of games these guys grew up seeing our program be in at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31015]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course it's always a little bit strange playing a guy who you just played with in the Davis Cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course it's always a little bit strange playing a guy who you just played with in the Davis Cup -- we won together an Olympic medal, and played last year's Davis Cup. But when you are professionals you know in this type of game and this level we can meet all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't follow your dreams; chase them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't follow your dreams; chase them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something that keeps Iraq intact, in land and in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore   Were on the new world set ashore,    He made it next his chief design     To plant and propagate a vine,      Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd       Far greater number, on dry ground,        Of wretched mankind, one by one,         Than all the flood before had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</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[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. [Philippians 4:2].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49012]]></link><description><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28147]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do half of a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do half of a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2025]]></link><description><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937]]></link><description><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57081]]></link><description><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was great to have B.J. back. We certainly hope we can have him back at full strength by tournament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was great to have B.J. back. We certainly hope we can have him back at full strength by tournament time. If so, I really like our chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25467</guid></item></channel></rss>