<?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[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. 1, ... The real value is what's retained within the CPA firm -- the tax planning and the review.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3845]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes:    Thus mellowed to that tender light     Which heaven to gaudy day denies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere each year, above that from deforestation, from the decomposition of what the loggers leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64167]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;   Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,     While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life free of addictions. Most addicts don't want to be addicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my Faith possessed itself serenely safe from death; If I deny things past finding out; Or if I orphan my own soul from One That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in Power and Grace, What do I gain by what I have undone?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485</guid></item></channel></rss>