<?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[Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60639]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants the silvery nightingale:    In these works my bleeding heart     Would to thee its brief impart;      When I thus thy image lose       Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so do I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21078]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which youknow exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quituntil you get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size   Grow teasing with their melodies,    Till noon burns with its blistering breath     Around, and day lies still as death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltrydecorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish watersthrough a marsh, without either honour or observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of these multinationals are going to have to call on their reserves to keep their earnings up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of these multinationals are going to have to call on their reserves to keep their earnings up in the face of the declining situation abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The why is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The why is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, who know that the Territories are not a part of Israel, and that all settlements are bound to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, who know that the Territories are not a part of Israel, and that all settlements are bound to be evacuated, hereby declare that we shall not continue to fight this War of the Settlements. We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people... We shall continue serving the Israel Defense Force in any mission that serves Israel's defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46439]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50430</guid></item></channel></rss>