<?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[Why he went off the road we don't know, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why he went off the road we don't know,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55576]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister was my bitch. We had to walk down Sunset Boulevard because we couldn't get a ride to the party, and everyone was sticking their heads out of their cars and yelling at us. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39653]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 percent of the total.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   Und wollen endlich hassen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous, ... A lot of those ideas came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous, ... A lot of those ideas came from products in the south. Our order backlogs have increased quite dramatically. We're currently delivering houses ordered for December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he does really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should have given us chronicles so plain and calm. They have nothing to say as from themselves. Their narratives place us without preface, and keep us without comment, among external scenes, in full view of facts, and in contact with the living person whom they teach us to know... Who can fail to recognize a divine provision for placing the disciples of all future ages as nearly as possible in the position of those who had been personally present at "the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God"?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .   Sabbathless Satan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47495]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20945]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20945</guid></item></channel></rss>