<?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[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob will now and then see things in a right light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob will now and then see things in a right light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult fieri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the complete package. Any coach would kill to have her on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passed by the row of meats at the Safewayand was afraid to buyWall St Journal reporter on the Diane ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passed by the row of meats at the Safewayand was afraid to buyWall St Journal reporter on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43879</guid></item></channel></rss>