<?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[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875]]></link><description><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis  E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I have contacted a lawyer, and the housing board is responsible for what she did. You are all three responsible, and you are going to be served. She needs to be taken off the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man hates no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man hates no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47462]]></link><description><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The words repeat    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our kids are ready to concede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61215]]></link><description><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we're coming out of the shadows of football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we're coming out of the shadows of football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16114]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst   On soul and body,--but we cannot die,    Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--     Lo, all things can be borne!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in motion be like water...at rest, like a mirror.resound like the echo;be subtle, as though nonexistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28121]]></link><description><![CDATA[in motion be like water...at rest, like a mirror.resound like the echo;be subtle, as though nonexistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more precautions as far as making sure there are secured documents for all these people coming through the Visa Waiver Program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,   Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,    The poorer and the baser you appear,     The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item></channel></rss>