<?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[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people's opinions in many cases, ... They are out of step politically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people's opinions in many cases, ... They are out of step politically, they are out of step in coverage. People get fed up with that. Newspapers are out of touch with mainstream Americans and now the problems are coming home to roost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46083]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.  When the splendour of your story   Builds the halo of its glory,    'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings     And diadem the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With self-discipline most anything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12400]]></link><description><![CDATA[With self-discipline most anything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,   We start, for soul is wanting there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's something the defense can hang their hat on. We're trying to establish our character and our identity. This was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28379]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's something the defense can hang their hat on. We're trying to establish our character and our identity. This was a great game, especially for our defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked to play a tough, physical game and the officials let us play that way tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135]]></link><description><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ides of March are come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ides of March are come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24069]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a light sigh,    That shakes from Life's fresh crown     Only a rose-leaf down.      If there were dreams to sell,       Merry and sad to tell,        And the crier rung the bell,         What would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060]]></link><description><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16363]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16363</guid></item></channel></rss>