<?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[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.   This life's a fort committed to my trust,    Which I must not yield up, till it be forced:     Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die,      But he that boldly bears calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew,   On Monday in the mall.    For what avail the plough or sail,     Or land, or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7858]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26987]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an environment where it is very difficult to jump in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an environment where it is very difficult to jump in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournament, any one of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39474]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournament, any one of which can win at any time. This tournament really lets you see what you need to work on and what you're doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not then in strictest reason clear,   Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head,   Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13686]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not singular except in syllable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not singular except in syllable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36787]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer than two years, this is the least I can do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50726]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item></channel></rss>