<?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[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping for a good turnout and looking for some legislative action for the environment. We need good strong support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41791]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping for a good turnout and looking for some legislative action for the environment. We need good strong support so we can get funding for our natural resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been pretty fortunate...we do quite a bit of training on driving and how you should be driving and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33776]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been pretty fortunate...we do quite a bit of training on driving and how you should be driving and things like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54034]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19308]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she jumped on my back and asked for the autograph. She was so cool and she said she wanted to be in a band... Well, whoever that was, I totally support you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty hockey, and made some great saves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you humble in this game. If you made everything, this would be an easy game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2068]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kiss away her tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50537]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kiss away her tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64189]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15512]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669]]></link><description><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist of what they need to do once they get home to actually make those happen. They need to be able to walk away from this with everything they need to do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover without discretion is no lover at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover without discretion is no lover at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5677]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346</guid></item></channel></rss>