<?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[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65485]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39486]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938]]></link><description><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50169]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905]]></link><description><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and in the standing trees. That's been the pattern for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38078]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to work hard tomorrow in practice; I guarantee that. ... We're getting a little lackadaisical, and that's going to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot or draw a foul, and she did terrific at the line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item></channel></rss>