<?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[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5459]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1280]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round forever;    I think that life is not too long,     And therefore I determine,      That many people read a song,       Who will not read a sermon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17989]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a holeThe old familiar stingTry to kill it all awayBut I remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,   To-morrow may be dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33011]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7631]]></link><description><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book  Wherein who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes,  And steer to Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can do for your mite.And remember, mite makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862</guid></item></channel></rss>