<?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[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273]]></link><description><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and is an excellent investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, butI couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, butI couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43874]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable like that, it's very hard and it creates offense for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,So I'm all of the love that could make it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item></channel></rss>