<?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[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55843]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65592]]></link><description><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483]]></link><description><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57921]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/13508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15889]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what it is like to be devastated and lose everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what it is like to be devastated and lose everything,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34772]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to deliver education for every child, and some kids just cannot thrive in a mainstream school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2636]]></link><description><![CDATA[One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots. I feel I've become quicker and stronger -- mentally and physically -- to deal with the college basketball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63080]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516]]></link><description><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving brave men he met in the anti-Nazi underground, the stark realities of prison life, and his disappointment in the professional churchmen of Germany, all may have influenced Bonhoeffer to see real Christianity as "non-religious" and "worldly"... The opposition between sacred and secular, supernatural and natural, seemed unreal to him -- the apparent opposites are united in Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50445]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all that I have met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all that I have met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40080]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320</guid></item></channel></rss>