<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31690]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31522]]></link><description><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... We're going to respect that. There will be plenty of time for us later to lay out our legal arguments and examine the evidence and search for answers in this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limits exist only in the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limits exist only in the mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39312]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52978]]></link><description><![CDATA[...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose sight of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62375]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59036]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise;  But waking flow'rs,   At morning hours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise;  But waking flow'rs,   At morning hours,    Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6105]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born,  Coward or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12066]]></link><description><![CDATA[No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born,  Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473]]></link><description><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is everything a coach could ask for in a hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did I not feel.   That One Great Spirit governs all.    O Heaven, permit that I may lie     Where o'er my corse green branches wave;      And those who from life's tumults fly       With kindred feelings press my grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23077]]></link><description><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32269]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He was a very wag, who to you said,   "Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076</guid></item></channel></rss>