<?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[Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/896</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[I have just about all I can take of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just about all I can take of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all,  Unless he first will learn humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20025]]></link><description><![CDATA[O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all,  Unless he first will learn humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails,   And head-winds right for royal sails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38157]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52217]]></link><description><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33963]]></link><description><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, whatever they had to do until the end of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at that as really good news for the market; you want something right in the sweet spot. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at that as really good news for the market; you want something right in the sweet spot. We're just in a nice, smooth acceleration, and now people are starting to think that's likely to be sustained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, theTraveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat underthe Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one,and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, aviolent dispute arose between them as to which of them had theright to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let theAss only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had,with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrelproceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Assgalloped off. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;  Nor shall they fail, till, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;  Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,   Life's golden fruit is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl. To round out the betting experience for our players, Bodog.com has been offering a wide variety of quality and unique proposition wagers for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58751]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270</guid></item></channel></rss>