<?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[For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59473]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is our gift to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is our gift to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of the 19th District about who I am and the values that I hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider using the cell phone during driving a risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider using the cell phone during driving a risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great put the little on the hooke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great put the little on the hooke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35589]]></link><description><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file bankruptcy just in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11931]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one life the aching,   Or cool one pain,    Or help one fainting robin     Into his nest again,      I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44369]]></link><description><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent crime, and as a result they did not renew it in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time;  A message to him every wave can deliver   To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11665]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55211]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17343]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44742]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to think that will translate to the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263</guid></item></channel></rss>