<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22122]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by about nine, but we're a fighting team and weren't going down without a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that she was born in Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe that $55 oil prices are, at least for the time being, something of the past and that jobs are just improving at a moderate pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they reflect -- is to begin with those to whom we owe the greatest responsibility -- those whom we most value -- our kids. Let's not just talk about it -- let's put kids first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56097]]></link><description><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55785]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them glad,   With such service as they had--    When they had dined, as I you say,     Lordis and ladies yede to play;      Some to tables and some to chess,       With other games more and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61149]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war we have followed through with a new rise in our standard of living by the application of war-taught knowledge for the benefit of the world. It will be the same with the atomic bomb principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61579]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21656</guid></item></channel></rss>