<?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 dignity of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20582]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58054]]></link><description><![CDATA[No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57885]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in moderation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5019]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29916]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40490]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34085]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227</guid></item></channel></rss>