<?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[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry   Along the waves dost thou fly?    Oh! rather, bird, with me     Through this fair land rejoice!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are few and far between.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in all, it was a very good year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38189]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in all, it was a very good year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe he made the decisions taking full responsibility and with faith in his own way [of doing things]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe he made the decisions taking full responsibility and with faith in his own way [of doing things].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers are busy teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois pork producers and the pork industry are committed to providing a safe, quality, affordable protein source, while caring for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illinois pork producers and the pork industry are committed to providing a safe, quality, affordable protein source, while caring for the environment, being a good neighbor, and adding economic development to our economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - we didn't have time to second-guess what we were doing and sanitise it into a more middle-ground story. When it aired it ended up getting three times the audience they expected. It was mind-numbing - I just couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20524]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5301]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are working with and take your prescription medication list to your agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like they have a backer, and it's always all about the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like they have a backer, and it's always all about the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa    Juxta crucem lacrymosa     Que pendebat Filius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,  Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,  Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place   And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run    Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,     And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58784</guid></item></channel></rss>