<?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[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their [federal] student aid, he wants to tell them about the legislation that he's introduced to reverse those changes that are about to hit and he also wants to get them energized and mobilized to fight the changes if they feel they're being wronged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61431]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,   In all the spread of it,    From foot to head,     Not heroes bled for it,      Faced steel and lead for it,       Precious blood shed for it,        Bathing in red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,   It has no great significance, it loses half its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private questions. That is good, as far as it goes... But better still is the advice to study the Bible objectively, ... without regard, first of all, to our own subjective needs. Let the great passages fix themselves in our memory. Let them stay there permanently, like bright beacons, launching their powerful shafts of light upon life's problems -- our own and everyone's -- as they illumine, now one, now another dark area of human life. Following such a method, we discover that the Bible does "speak to our condition" and meet our needs, not just occasionally or when some emergency arises, but continually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that hath been made, under the blessing of God, of the conscientious observation of the Lord's day, in the past and present ages, unto the promotion of holiness, righteousness, and religion universally, in the power of it; and if they are not under invincible prejudices, it will be very difficult for them to judge that it is a plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted. For my part, I must not only say, but plead whilst I live in this world, and leave this testimony to the present and future ages, if these papers see the light and do survive, that if I have ever seen any thing in the ways and worship of God wherein the power of religion or godliness hath been expressed, any thing that hath represented the holiness of the gospel and the Author of it, any thing that hath looked like a preludium unto the everlasting Sabbath and rest with God, which we aim through grace to come unto, it hath been there and with them where and amongst whom the Lord's day hath been had in highest esteem, and a strict observation of it attended unto, as an ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime a kid wins, it's awesome, and I'm so excited for the guys who do make it. But I'm heartbroken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime a kid wins, it's awesome, and I'm so excited for the guys who do make it. But I'm heartbroken for the kids who don't. You never win. When you bring 12 it's tough to win them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48593]]></link><description><![CDATA[All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64113]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41354]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400]]></link><description><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income areas, have more adults in their life. All of these things add up to better lives, safer lives, better schools and communities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991</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 be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33492]]></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/33492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type.. I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products on contract for a length of time. The link of the contract is something that is based on the volatility of a particular product, and the price of zinc has been going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no Salaam;  And dear the beaver is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no Salaam;  And dear the beaver is to him   As if it never made a dam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552</guid></item></channel></rss>