<?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[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19992]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40056]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âcalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tale in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tale in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some very interesting products. There is more to come in 2007. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some very interesting products. There is more to come in 2007.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53698]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I can't be out there helping the guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a hempen string   Under the gallow-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33185]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;  You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule   Should ever be kept at the front;--    Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head     And kick every worriment out of the bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do we become   Like God in love and power,--under-makers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/93]]></link><description><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/93</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our kids really fought to get back in the game and gave themselves a chance to win. We had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our kids really fought to get back in the game and gave themselves a chance to win. We had to play so hard to overcome a lot. We had to play perfectly in a lot of areas. We had to make fewer turnovers, we had to get more rebounds and we had to get to the free throw line more than we did. It was tough to overcome but we gave it a shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item></channel></rss>