<?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[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold War, with war in the offing and no certainty about the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evils have their comfort, good none can support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evils have their comfort, good none can support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66352]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20953]]></link><description><![CDATA[An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. He provided comic relief but was also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. He provided comic relief but was also a real person doing things that were very important to the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19316]]></link><description><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; and therefore, says David, The Lord reigneth, let the Islands rejoice -- the Islands who by reason of their situation, provision, and trading have most means of conveying Christ Jesus over the world. He hath carried us up to heaven & set us at the right hand of God, & shall not we endeavour to carry him to those nations, who have not yet heard of his name? Shall we still brag that we have brought our clothes, and our hatchets, and our knives, and bread to this and this value and estimation amongst those poor ignorant Souls, and shall we never glory that we have brought the name, and Religion of Christ Jesus in estimation amongst them? Shall we stay till other nations have planted a false Christ among them? And then either continue in our sloth, or take more pains in rooting out a false Christ than would have planted the true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.  [Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuchtig Wort,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.  [Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuchtig Wort,   Verein' und leite! Bess'rer Hort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25217]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66753]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466</guid></item></channel></rss>