<?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[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. )Ahimsa nonviolenceGopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know who set the schedule but it is negative for good results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know who set the schedule but it is negative for good results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28504]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnI'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65132]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnI'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in theiruniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.*(the same thing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54755]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in theiruniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.*(the same thing is being done to the Shiites and Sunnisby mosque bombers.. with the US military or Sharonoperatives tagged as Sunnis for Shiites and Shiites forSunnis).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41487]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other better and we're communicating like a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without excuse   Who steals a common from the goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were on a pretty good streak and things just don't change overnight. ... It comes down to believing in each other and finding a way to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all bent askew,   A crooked trail as all calves do.    . . . .     And men two centuries and a half      Trod in the footsteps of that calf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985</guid></item></channel></rss>