<?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[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good hitter. The first one I thought Emily might have a shot at, but the second one was a no-doubter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, and we see 'Lord of the Rings' as a way to bring that back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36242]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are playing possibly the best, if not the best, team we've seen all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are playing possibly the best, if not the best, team we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4168]]></link><description><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire   In all things which our needful faith require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly understand parents' concerns, and we don't want to associate ourselves with promoting alcohol to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly understand parents' concerns, and we don't want to associate ourselves with promoting alcohol to youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60039]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46025]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62859]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36394]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item></channel></rss>