<?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[He did a great job for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a great job for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Domestic violence) is such a dark social issue, we opted to have a fun event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33344]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Domestic violence) is such a dark social issue, we opted to have a fun event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43164]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5624]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</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[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people were really wonderful. They helped each other. We passed places where there was a forest on one side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people were really wonderful. They helped each other. We passed places where there was a forest on one side of the road. Our route took us where there had been small homes and multi-million dollar homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is big news. People sort-of thought it was inevitable, but it's still come sooner than many expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32939]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is big news. People sort-of thought it was inevitable, but it's still come sooner than many expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25519]]></link><description><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41605]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What price Glory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What price Glory?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5623]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/337</guid></item></channel></rss>