<?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[We don't have that plastic stuff that will break a week after you buy it. Everything here is good quality-wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that plastic stuff that will break a week after you buy it. Everything here is good quality-wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><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[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are involved in bringing this plant material, which is probably rare and endangered, back into circulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness - A Real Stress Buster -Ed Howe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought   That one might almost say her body thought.   - Dr. John Donne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't know whether this would be a five-inning game or not (because of the weather).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63328]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,   See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24990]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, it's a better environment for us. We're spending time in Indiana and have more prospects here. We think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, it's a better environment for us. We're spending time in Indiana and have more prospects here. We think there are better opportunities in Indiana than there ever have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43377]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43377</guid></item></channel></rss>