<?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[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49402]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about their explosiveness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about their explosiveness, what I have seen is they have a lot of versatility,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung   By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light;    And if in recollection lives regret     For wasted days and dreams that were not true,      I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet"       Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew        Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,         And for the pansies send me back a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was blind and stupid. I had no frame of reference to know what I was getting into. I'd never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was blind and stupid. I had no frame of reference to know what I was getting into. I'd never even done my own laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51356]]></link><description><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and rebellious: their alienation from God, it is clearly implied, is to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior I want is one of whom I can say with Thomas of old, "My Lord and my God". It would not suffice for my need that He should be only an heroic brother, man divinely inspired. I owe Him my soul, He fills my whole spiritual horizon, I seek to lose myself in Him that I may find myself eternally in life and love divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56658]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far and Matt and I are concerned ... all I can do is compete against myself. If I eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33834]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far and Matt and I are concerned ... all I can do is compete against myself. If I eliminate mistakes on my end and just concentrate on doing the best that I can do, I think I have a good shot to lead the team like I did last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29692</guid></item></channel></rss>