<?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[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain hasn't played for a while, I hope the players can put on a good display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this [calendar] year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. -N Smith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34389]]></link><description><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh to that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perceive there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perceive there is more drinking going on than there really is, which increases bad behavior. Unfortunately, speculation can create a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he ismaking money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he ismaking money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're on a mission right now. I thought we played very well defensively today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36084]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're on a mission right now. I thought we played very well defensively today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56032]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries is taken care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,   As when some master-hand exulting sweeps    The keys of some great organ, ye give forth     The music of the woodland depths, a hymn      Of gladness and of thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item></channel></rss>