<?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[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17702]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51899]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2349]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I think we'll see a lot of transactions in the next few months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy weeps them out again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more quickly. If there are problems on weekends, there's always somebody around to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66874</guid></item></channel></rss>