<?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[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind gave me, In seeking tales and informations  Against this man, whose honesty the devil   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14030]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind gave me, In seeking tales and informations  Against this man, whose honesty the devil   And his disciples only envy at,    Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27913]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who teaches children learns more than they do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5940]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who teaches children learns more than they do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64979]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7855</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[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not punished for our sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not punished for our sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35408]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/540</guid></item></channel></rss>