<?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[Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22249]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,   With a diadem of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a nice job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a nice job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63215]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. •Woody Allen  At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. •Italian Proverb  Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. •Vladimir Nabokov  Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. •George Sanders, his suicide note  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. •Santayana  Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. •George Bernard Shaw  Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. •Dylan Thomas  To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. •Anonymous   We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. •Nathaniel Hawthorne  All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. •Anatole France   We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. •Plato   Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. •President Klein  The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. •Richard Bach  If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. •Albert Camus   We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. •Anatole France  I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. •Jimi Hendrix  The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts often possess more data than judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experts often possess more data than judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23199]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37698]]></link><description><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee,   Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes,    And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear.     Thou hast betray'd me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59237</guid></item></channel></rss>