<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth,  Place on you hand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth,  Place on you hand a Turquoise blue,   Success will bless whate'er you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu;  Though we sever, my fond heart   Till we meet shall pant for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeenhurt before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55710]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled,  Shakes off her wonted firmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled,  Shakes off her wonted firmness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!  How it drives beneath the doors!   How it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52933]]></link><description><![CDATA[How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!  How it drives beneath the doors!   How it soaks the passer's feet!    How it rattles on the shutter!     How it rumples up the lawn!      How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,       From darkness until dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought (against). It is a time to remember his fight for freedom, equality and dignity of all races and all people. He was an incredible man ... he forced our nation to look inside and face our own flaws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30409]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60632]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how your hair looks,' and shooting him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40347]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40347</guid></item></channel></rss>