<?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[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in the ocean   Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,    Although she lave them hourly in the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pleased overall with what we've done in the spring. We got a good look at some young guys we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pleased overall with what we've done in the spring. We got a good look at some young guys we think can really help us. And I really like the fact we have a kicker and punter who've been under the gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody out there. Learn from this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody out there. Learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop a built-in bullshit detector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop a built-in bullshit detector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4286]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,   Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, your heart is racing. The more times you go out in front of a crowd, the more relaxed you're going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item></channel></rss>