<?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[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just proud to take over a program with such great tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just proud to take over a program with such great tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just been one of those years when so many dreams have come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just been one of those years when so many dreams have come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932]]></link><description><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,   To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23040]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile,   And with dew from his eye often wet it.    It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland;     And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland--      The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock,       The sweet little, green little, shamrock of Ireland!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and undermine the very institutions that the people of Somalia so ardently desire and the international community and the United Nations are willing to support,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By education most have been misled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13402]]></link><description><![CDATA[By education most have been misled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty needs much, avarice everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty needs much, avarice everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3976]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26793]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,  And the imperial vot'ress passed on,   In maiden meditation, fancy-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!  While punctual beaux reward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58559]]></link><description><![CDATA[May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!  While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes,   And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26957]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56725</guid></item></channel></rss>