<?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[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32340]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. Then, we need basic science to figure out how it is helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35051]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price, ... Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19278]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All covet, all lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All covet, all lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will continue their full commitment and co-operation to showcase international competition at its highest levels in racing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,   Take them and give me my childhood again.    I have grown weary of dust and decay,     Weary of sowing for others to reap;      Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60616]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1943]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart--   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,   And trembl'd with fear at your frown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was amazing. That showed us that we can win if we play as a team, no matter who's out there on the court. We've really switched people around everybody plays everywhere at different times. We've just been able to really pull together as a team because we have a common goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65214]]></link><description><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing through the gates of pearly splendor, Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34974</guid></item></channel></rss>