<?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[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't turn over the ball five times and expect to win. It's something we have to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38270]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't turn over the ball five times and expect to win. It's something we have to work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16560]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe   Upon a dwarfish thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr.   I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln   Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner   Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deal is a clear sign that it still pays to be overweight Mexico and we expect to see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deal is a clear sign that it still pays to be overweight Mexico and we expect to see more upside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wo be to him that reads but one book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wo be to him that reads but one book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478]]></link><description><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932]]></link><description><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away,   Then take her by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always want to have more dancers in my company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always want to have more dancers in my company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item></channel></rss>