<?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[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the neon, repaint the marquee ... and we'll also have the front of the building lit up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual strikes fear in you is no way to live in the United States of America. But that is what is going to happen until any sort of comprehensive legislation is passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights   To him who wears the regal diadem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns  Sont d'un second hymen les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns  Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9121]]></link><description><![CDATA[No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured itout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured itout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would be OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have peace with God by the righteousness of Christ, and peace of conscience by the fruits of righteousness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have peace with God by the righteousness of Christ, and peace of conscience by the fruits of righteousness in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weep when we are born, Not when we die! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weep when we are born, Not when we die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, with a screen in front, that's even tougher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item></channel></rss>