<?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[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104]]></link><description><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows you that people actually can see that he's not just a number --that he was a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39479]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows you that people actually can see that he's not just a number --that he was a man with a family that needs comforting. Even after a year, people are reaching out and that's nice because while our lives go on, Mike's life doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28700]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er wail their present woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42621]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no business living through that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no business living through that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item></channel></rss>