<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868]]></link><description><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37229]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33386]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three, four years ago, I could buy as many lots as I wanted for $4,000 a lot. Now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three, four years ago, I could buy as many lots as I wanted for $4,000 a lot. Now I have people laughing at me when I offer them $30,000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... they are bound by the command of Christ to suffer opposition to their doctrine with meekness and gentleness, and to be so far from striving to subdue their opposites with the civil sword, that they are bound with patience and meekness to wait if God peradventure will please to grant repentance unto their opposites...   The sword may make a whole nation of hypocrites. But to recover a soul from Satan by repentance, and to bring them from anti-Christian doctrine or worship to the Christian doctrine and worship, in the least true internal or external submission, is only worked by the all-powerful God through the sword of the Spirit in the hand of His spiritual officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36821]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3440]]></link><description><![CDATA[To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10884]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the 30-year Treasury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the 30-year Treasury is so low is because people are expecting an economic slowdown, and that's not going to be good for earnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62668]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15845]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little and good fills the trencher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every sedge he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every sedge he overtook in his watery pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that could bring trouble for us. Brazil still needs foreign financing this year...so we need the flow of foreign funds to continue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander that way, call it home;   He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass it on and get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48725</guid></item></channel></rss>