<?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[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735]]></link><description><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a foothold, ... Another thing is that Florida is not very species-diverse, so there are more options for invasion because there aren't many native species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50527]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach a bed may show   Of human bliss to human woe.    [Fr., Theatre des ris et des pleurs     Lit! ou je nais, et ou je meurs,      Tu nous fais voir comment voisins       Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problem" for society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solved" by the establishment of a new overall adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39809]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time in Chicago or L.A..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25199]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who do us none at all.   [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,    Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a drag of cloud.muffled thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a game that somebody ought to put a stop to -- trying to get dirt on jurors. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28732]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a game that somebody ought to put a stop to -- trying to get dirt on jurors. We shouldn't be asking about 40-year-old arrests. Why do we need it? So these lawyers can play all of these strategic games?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. They have a good inventory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. They have a good inventory of projects to continue this above-average production growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19625]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,   By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion design isn't just art for art's sake. You must be able to take it to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion design isn't just art for art's sake. You must be able to take it to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman has an abortion for fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman has an abortion for fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,   How justly doth a lie    Draw on its head despair!     Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers      The boldest and the strongest still was I.       Although so fair,        Therefore from Heaven         A stronger perfume unto me was given          Than any blossom of the summer hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;  It yearns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10464]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;  It yearns me not if me my garments wear;   Such outward things dwell not in my desires:    But if it be a sin to covet honor,     I am the most offending soul alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52695]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37524</guid></item></channel></rss>