<?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[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as "dirty". If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by about nine, but we're a fighting team and weren't going down without a fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</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[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,   And all that thou hast done for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40056]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âcalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is still a word going forth -- from Him who liveth for ever and ever -- the voice which says, "These bones shall rise."   All struggles after union, though they may be of the most abortive kind, though they may produce fresh sects and fresh divisions, though they must do so as long as they rest on the notion that unity is something visible and material, yet indicate a deep and divine necessity which men could not be conscious of in their dreams if they were not beginning to wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to talk with me
I got you to kiss goodnight
I got you to hold me tight
I got you, I won't let go
I got you to love me so
I got you babe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you haveof yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you wantto lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,  And, out of sight, art nursing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19155]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item></channel></rss>