<?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[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23396]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same way every game. But this game, we had to keep playing hard because Virginia wasn't going to go away. We knew the only way to beat Virginia was to play hard for 40 minutes and that's what we did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want his own people on the ground. But it sends all the wrong signals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when a judge needs additional assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when a judge needs additional assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51210]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18849]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, the only certainty is uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing no murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing no murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three years ago, the hand of terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people at the World Trade Center ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, the hand of terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people at the World Trade Center in New York. Terrorism did not stop at its mean act but further wreaked havoc in several spots of the world, with no discrimination between one religion and another and one people and another,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14074]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men demand rough treatment everywhere! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of thoseevents themselvers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we just meet our needs this year and do fewer wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17344]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881]]></link><description><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320</guid></item></channel></rss>