<?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[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26908]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33119]]></link><description><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19371]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   Can see her beauty in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight   Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is    She you seek!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66366]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30085]]></link><description><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that we see here prove that the Afar region is the origin of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</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[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27547</guid></item></channel></rss>