<?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[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By education most have been misled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13402]]></link><description><![CDATA[By education most have been misled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might get a No.1 pick like Peyton Manning. Ask the Colts if they think the system is working. Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36021]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might get a No.1 pick like Peyton Manning. Ask the Colts if they think the system is working. Or ask the Cowboys with Troy Aikman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!   Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering    And innocent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57705]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes students find it funny when it happens to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes students find it funny when it happens to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be a pretty quiet day. We may see a little follow- through due to the strength of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be a pretty quiet day. We may see a little follow- through due to the strength of the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. [Lat., Componitur orbis  Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus   Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider them to be part of the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider them to be part of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1255]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273]]></link><description><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34214]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has been threatened with outsourcing, be it Italy, be it Australia, New Zealand, and certainly, Canada,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item></channel></rss>