<?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[Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead!  Act,--act in the living Present!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead!  Act,--act in the living Present!   Heart within and God o'erhead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with consumer electronics makers to reach the consumer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/370]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices in the former two are considerably cheaper than their Alberta counterparts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time. We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47275]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or 4 films, so that also interested me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24095]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not waking till she sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the BirdsA cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the BirdsA cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them. He knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They replied, We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36706]]></link><description><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item></channel></rss>