<?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[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20582]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go out and do our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go out and do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26435]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37821]]></link><description><![CDATA[March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the hill. The rain we got should help set up local farmers for the spring season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50427]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and story   Long may it wave, old glory    The flag that has never known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28023]]></link><description><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177]]></link><description><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16664]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item></channel></rss>