<?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[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in danger of her former tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in all, it was a very good year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38189]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in all, it was a very good year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressedourselves to this problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. •Dale Rice   Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty •Dominic Lawson   I used to be a hopeless romantic -- I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Now I'm a little more . . . jaded •Source Unknown  People say the word 'naive' as if it were a bad thing. Frankly, I believe that being naive, like a child, is being innocent. Being innocent is happiness. Once innocence is lost there is no turning back, we have now become cynical and jaded adults •Source Unknown  We'll have to change our jaded ways, but I've loved these days. •Billy Joel  ...time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own. •John Randolph  I'm not jaded but I'm not controlled by my emotions. It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. •Marilyn Manson  If I don't make it know that, I've loved you all along. Just like sunny days that, we didn't know because we're all dumb and jaded , and I pray to God I figure out whats wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike requited,   Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6745]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps that speck in our brother's eye is only a reflection of the beam in our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   As if her merit lessen'd yours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19032]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind,  Believes 'tis always left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15501]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind,  Believes 'tis always left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they go you will inevitably fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36910</guid></item></channel></rss>