<?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[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost their traditional religious faith, and they provide a kind of pseudo-religion to take its place. Ideology may well be defined as religion-substitute. The fact that religious faith expresses itself in the particular ideological forms current in any given period is no reason why we should confuse religion with ideology; and, even though it requires a penetrating and candid investigation to distinguish between the genuinely religious and the merely ideological elements in the outlook of a particular period or individual, this does not mean that religion itself is an aspect of ideology. The core of religious belief is not ideological, whatever may be said of the soft pulp in which it is wrapped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The graveyards are full of indispensable men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole group didn't play real well, but I hung in there and made some good pars. I worked on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole group didn't play real well, but I hung in there and made some good pars. I worked on straightening out my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37622</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[That one was kind of a no-brainer. We were eager to be able to rush the good news to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That one was kind of a no-brainer. We were eager to be able to rush the good news to the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or light   Whiff of a dream for a summer night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--   Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry weavers   On the other side of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799</guid></item></channel></rss>