<?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["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300]]></link><description><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30911]]></link><description><![CDATA[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense for 2006; Drew and Oral will add some flair and character to our attacking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again;    So tossed, and drifting ever,     On life's unresting sea,      Men meet, and greet, and sever,       Parting eternally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES LIVES A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4150]]></link><description><![CDATA[DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES LIVES A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a soup kitchen? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a soup kitchen?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,   To warn us from the place of jeopardy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1644]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life like an empty dream flits by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life like an empty dream flits by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are not considering the CIS from a military perspective, and our main aim is to join NATO.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8709</guid></item></channel></rss>