<?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[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came in and was able to locate his pitches and we made the plays behind him. He had pinpoint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came in and was able to locate his pitches and we made the plays behind him. He had pinpoint accuracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32542]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, you have to treat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, you have to treat those guys a little differently, and Andrew did a real nice job with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63272]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale and cider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563]]></link><description><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,   While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what we've been seeing tonight, we'll definitely do it again. It's definitely a keeper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33229]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what we've been seeing tonight, we'll definitely do it again. It's definitely a keeper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47987]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass  That every braggart shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass  That every braggart shall be found an ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10498</guid></item></channel></rss>