<?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[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Clear shining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Clear shining from God must be at the bottom of deep labouring with God. What is the reason that so many in our days set their hands to the plough, and looked back again? -- begin to serve Providence in great things, but cannot finish? -- give over in the heat of the day? They never had any such revelation of the mind of God upon their spirits, such a discovery of His excellence, as might serve for a bottom of such undertakings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's greatest challenge is to control oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's greatest challenge is to control oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17663]]></link><description><![CDATA[One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64048]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly   Dipping into the flowers of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30896]]></link><description><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10160]]></link><description><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782</guid></item></channel></rss>