<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made arrangements to get those kids back to her, ... He took that all upon himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37035]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made arrangements to get those kids back to her, ... He took that all upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9753]]></link><description><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever plays the best defense is going to win this league. So that's what we have to do, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever plays the best defense is going to win this league. So that's what we have to do, and we have to play better on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worm theology is too high for me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worm theology is too high for me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting full periods together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting full periods together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President means chief servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155]]></link><description><![CDATA[President means chief servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (Israelis) destroyed our homes and our mosques, ... Today it is our turn to destroy theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (Israelis) destroyed our homes and our mosques, ... Today it is our turn to destroy theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12609]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still one of the best software companies out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35288]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still one of the best software companies out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go about six inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can save your marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can save your marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item></channel></rss>