<?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[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48533]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he does really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41201]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from seven or eight to 14 or 15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47643]]></link><description><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61338]]></link><description><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,    With God or man will gain thee no remission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175]]></link><description><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye of day;   So dies a wave along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her (Barbee) is that I know it will be emotional, but she needs to keep playing the way she has and not let it consume her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65766]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He inspires people and organizations to better look to their future by becoming more creative. He actually does a painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38136]]></link><description><![CDATA[He inspires people and organizations to better look to their future by becoming more creative. He actually does a painting and incorporates it into his talk. It's very unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23976]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I just need to keep doing it on a more consistent basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40651]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40651</guid></item></channel></rss>