<?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[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043]]></link><description><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before I take it. I don't compose my shots through the viewfinder, so I'm not keeping my camera visible for long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58395]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65295]]></link><description><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum  Typographia   Ars artium omnium    Conservatrix     Hic primum inventa      Circa annum mccccxl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped region?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19671]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them now. But that did not turn out to be true. Indians have come through unscathed, and they're able to protect their turf ... So now there's the sense that we want to learn from them, rather than that they'll wipe us out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9098</guid></item></channel></rss>