<?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[I've made several films that haven't been shown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made several films that haven't been shown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us make an honourable retreat. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us make an honourable retreat. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able to avoid it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made it hold up with a solid run. He's the real deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled to loosen up and our shots started falling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662]]></link><description><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;  For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,  Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow,  And soonest our best men with thee do go,  Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,  And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well,  And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally,  And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them   And show the heavens more just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the Resurrection explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24139]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.  On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19092]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.  On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,   And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of each other and we play well together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770</guid></item></channel></rss>