<?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[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's generally my belief and those of others in this field of cultural studies that popular culture has a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42531]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's generally my belief and those of others in this field of cultural studies that popular culture has a big effect on the people who consume it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40044]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43076]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate would come to focus on those issues ? focus on the things your constituents are concerned about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3839]]></link><description><![CDATA[And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,   Behold their tears and hear their cries!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22622]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it wasnot that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40223]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622</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[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item></channel></rss>