<?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 forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56515]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands to it for help--for it   As impotently moves as you or I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?  Gone--glimmering through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?  Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;   First in the race that led to glory's goal,    They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can eat fifty eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can eat fifty eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   Mercy I askt, mercy I found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50388]]></link><description><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not. There is no try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38099]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer was feeling well, so he didn't have his best game. So I was just happy to be able to knock down some shots and contribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49530]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32763]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a beginner as far as that goes, as far as using his eyes. The say a great runner has vision. He has all the tools, but he's still learning to use that vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes have no way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes have no way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/1255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27593]]></link><description><![CDATA[This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27593</guid></item></channel></rss>