<?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[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the one dreadful thing. That His Father should forget him! -- no power in Himself could make up for that. He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11891]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63489]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took all the classes and the shots required by the Red Cross, and they flew us to Mississippi on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33697]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took all the classes and the shots required by the Red Cross, and they flew us to Mississippi on Nov. 21. I also volunteered for the Red Hat Society, because I'm a member of that group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65058]]></link><description><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said was an effort] to set the record straight. ... coerced and had been required as a condition for Mr. Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29725]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item></channel></rss>