<?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[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp the boughs above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17770]]></link><description><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54798]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,   Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60139]]></link><description><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ever coached,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38170</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[And last, the crown of a' my grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I had a feverMy hands felt just like two balloons.Now I've got that feeling once againI can't explain you would not understandThis is not how I am.I have become comfortably numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire is known,   Each has his will, and each pursues his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the dust behind the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item></channel></rss>