<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53963]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;   While one alone, however prompt, resolves    More tardily and with a weaker will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55595]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,   And namely that that to us alle is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746]]></link><description><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47375]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56419]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47881]]></link><description><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to bombard the audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell with new runners because they get injured so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37601</guid></item></channel></rss>