<?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[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They don’t know they’re being funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser eye betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38367]]></link><description><![CDATA[is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, that is militarily effective and loyal to the established civil government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46549]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32409]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horses are predictably unpredictable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horses are predictably unpredictable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many of our younger players,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they move into young adulthood. Providing a simple, easy-to-use program for schools that reinforces character development benefits children at every age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48163]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52131</guid></item></channel></rss>