<?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[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. •Woody Allen  At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. •Italian Proverb  Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. •Vladimir Nabokov  Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. •George Sanders, his suicide note  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. •Santayana  Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. •George Bernard Shaw  Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. •Dylan Thomas  To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. •Anonymous   We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. •Nathaniel Hawthorne  All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. •Anatole France   We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. •Plato   Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. •President Klein  The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. •Richard Bach  If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. •Albert Camus   We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. •Anatole France  I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. •Jimi Hendrix  The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found no certain home; At last I sought them in His sheltering breast, Who opes His arms and bids the weary come: With Him I found a home, a rest divine, And I, since then, am His, and He is mine. The good I have is from His stores supplied, The ill is only what He deems the best; He for my friend, I'm rich with naught beside, And poor without Him, though of all possessed; Changes may come, I take or I resign Content, while I am His, and He is mine. Whate'er may change, in Him no change is seen, A glorious Sun that wanes not nor declines; Above the storms and clouds He walks serene, And on His people's inward darkness shines; All may depart: I fret not, nor repine, While I my Saviours am, while He is mine. While here, alas! I know but half His love, But half discern Him, and but half adore; But when I meet Him in the realms above I hope to love him better, praise Him more, And feel, and tell, amid the choir divine, How fully I am His, and He is mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shock to us to see these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shock to us to see these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14851]]></link><description><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49096]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing game and the running game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662]]></link><description><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in the changing markets when they only see the upside of things going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58073</guid></item></channel></rss>