<?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[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65448]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not give to those who will not spend... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not give to those who will not spend...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all of us against the foreigner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion and the mould of form,   Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28917]]></link><description><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482]]></link><description><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our opportunities to do good are our talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our opportunities to do good are our talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially when you get the curly koa. Because of the complexity of the grain, it's a very challenging wood. Mango is a fabulous wood and it's underrated. For some reason, it doesn't carry the influence that koa does. Mango is some beautiful wood. I work some 30 varieties, generally, because I love the variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38561]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to have an effect on the child. Children and parents have a more satisfying experience and fewer children need to be sedated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38561</guid></item></channel></rss>