<?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[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131</guid></item><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[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35722]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the hottest thing right now because they have a No. 1 single. What they embody is . . . music in the truest form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make an impression. It's nice for that to happen here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half our problem last season was that we leaked too many goals, so I decided we needed more solidity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half our problem last season was that we leaked too many goals, so I decided we needed more solidity and leadership at the back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37455]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time before someone gets killed or is seriously injured on that road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57475]]></link><description><![CDATA[What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item></channel></rss>