<?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[You can only be free if I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew through those waves. It was exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66425]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2488]]></link><description><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont mene la charrue.    Mais, las de cultiver enfin     La terre labouree      L'une a detele le matin,       L'autre l'apres-dinee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11539]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a little bit last week and maybe some of the boys were thinking they were only one game away from the play-offs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ship drives east and the other drives west by the self same winds thatblow. It's the set of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22470]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ship drives east and the other drives west by the self same winds thatblow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the waythey go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the standalone novels that Dutton suggested he write.] You can explore broader themes in a standalone novel, ... You can put your character through much greater levels of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42183]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  To its idolatries a patient knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2755]]></link><description><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)   An horrid chasm disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40894]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks  Who know me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks  Who know me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand records are there to be broken. One day, somebody's going to do it. The Colts have a very good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13460</guid></item></channel></rss>