<?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[It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51912]]></link><description><![CDATA[And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought to clean his tongue and wash the boots of David Beckham as they are so wet tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66424]]></link><description><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use it or lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use it or lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38509]]></link><description><![CDATA[BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would like to extend his bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bowden gave a statement on that. The only thing I'll say is that we're disappointed. What it presents now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bowden gave a statement on that. The only thing I'll say is that we're disappointed. What it presents now is a challenge for someone else to step in and take over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41110]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De Villiers was not far behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15570]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long,   Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12804</guid></item></channel></rss>