<?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[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my estimate of fourth quarter GDP up closer to 3 percent. We know the Fed is sitting on the edge of its seat. It's going to make everybody a bit nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right hand of power And with a sudden lightning smite the world perfect. Yet this was not God's way, Who had the power,  But set it by, choosing the cross, the thorn,  The sorrowful wounds. Something there is, perhaps, That power destroys in passing, something supreme, To whose great value in the eyes of God That cross, that thorn, and those five wounds bear witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41538]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction   Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,    And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;     The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves      The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,       That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n        From gen'ral excrement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the number one factor impacting these programs is the tight labor market, which is making it really hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the number one factor impacting these programs is the tight labor market, which is making it really hard for employers to let their workers go for eight to 12 weeks at time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11122]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5690]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:   Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:    Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61633</guid></item></channel></rss>