<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410]]></link><description><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,   And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57561]]></link><description><![CDATA[thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to find their clothes after agame]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host,  For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast;   How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife,    And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12305]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47319]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40140]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright,   Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup,    And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vibrations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vibrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the gathers   Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is responsible for what happened in the Balkans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9105</guid></item></channel></rss>