<?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[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50016]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993</guid></item><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[Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. -Damien Hess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268]]></link><description><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and so full of pain!   Forever and forever shalt thou be    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,     To some the landmark of a new domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont   To throng for trade and last quotations;    Where, hour, by hour, the rates of gold     Outrival, in the ears of people,      The quarter-chimes, serenely tolled       From Trinity's undaunted steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36921]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me   And my soul is in Cathay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house and a woman sute excellently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house and a woman sute excellently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214]]></link><description><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new coaching staff seemed like they're ready to renovate. They said I was too good for (junior college). I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new coaching staff seemed like they're ready to renovate. They said I was too good for (junior college). I saw the spring game, and they looked like they were motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12735</guid></item></channel></rss>