<?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 like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459]]></link><description><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all is said and done, more is said than done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63349]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all is said and done, more is said than done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53683]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, believe me, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, believe me, be incorporated in the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Father; He is our right hand through which we offer ourselves to the Father. Unless He intercedes, there is no intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put down. Very few of them are kept, and the ones that are kept are the ones they think would be adoptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. Our freshmen have shown a lot of poise, but we lost two valuable guys to injury in the beginning of the year and you just can't replace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shudder when relating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item></channel></rss>