<?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[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52011]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a thing; it is a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a thing; it is a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around to finishing up until this project came along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38343]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. But I give Hillcrest a lot of credit they're a good team and have a lot of good players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him fry in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him fry in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.   - George Bancroft,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful than this marble sleep;   It hears a voice within it tell:    Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.     'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,      But 'tis not what our youth desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</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[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40184]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could see that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5422]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,   That borrow their behaviors from the great,    Grow great by your example and put on     The dauntless spirit of resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;   For thou must die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11143</guid></item></channel></rss>