<?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[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. -N Smith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No call has ever poisoned by pen. [Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63233]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, "Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know." He stared telling hes story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: "This story isn't too long." But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, "Uh-oh, this story is getting long." But then the story was over, and I said to myself: "You know, that story wasn't too long after all." I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on offense, or defense. Unfortunately, it wore us down a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;  Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did they drive their team a-field!   How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard and get healthy, we will be just fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42002]]></link><description><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905</guid></item></channel></rss>