<?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[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with good leadership by Prime Minister Allawi and his ministers, that the elections will be able to be held,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</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[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36983]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281]]></link><description><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats the drum.The hour of grief.The darkened sun.Thy will be donerolls the drum.The sound of shot.The grave begun.Thy will be donemourns the drum.**by N Marshall Bertsch(N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundlygriefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be hard to replace those goals Joel Adeline had. We'll have to play more of a team game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be hard to replace those goals Joel Adeline had. We'll have to play more of a team game instead of relying on one player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581]]></link><description><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard and get respect here in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coaches always told me, 'Well, if you can snap, go over to the side and practice a little bit,' and literally I was always the only guy who could do it. So I did it in pee wee, midget, junior high school, high school, college. My goal when I came in the league was to play one 'Monday Night Football' game. Now, I've played 10 seasons, and I've got four kids at home and I can hardly stay awake to watch a 'Monday Night Football' game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35568]]></link><description><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If one could talk absolutely humanly about Christ, one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If one could talk absolutely humanly about Christ, one would have to say that the words: "my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" are impatient and untrue. They can only be true if God says them, and consequently also when the God-Man says them. And indeed since it is true, it is the very limit of suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted my knees up a little higher. Maybe I could have gotten in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27425]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. (Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18144]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46836]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552</guid></item></channel></rss>