<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when people boarded those trains. It's another way of telling the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and your right back. We did a lot of that stuff today and it worked well for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I think we'll see a lot of transactions in the next few months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,  Could penetrate her uncompassionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51536]]></link><description><![CDATA[But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,  Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie: It's my favorite time of day, driving you. Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It is the saddest part of my day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie: It's my favorite time of day, driving you. Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It is the saddest part of my day, leaving you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and luckily I got to go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever charm thou hast, be charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. They're clearly generating more interest than we had two years ago, and I think that'll carry through to election day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for life or a lesson for life!!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers   Down path that were sweet with perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to be mad, and I'm not going to dwell on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to be mad, and I'm not going to dwell on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28420</guid></item></channel></rss>