<?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[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers   The tassels of the maple flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38509]]></link><description><![CDATA[BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  [Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,   Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13348]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13553]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly growes without watering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly growes without watering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42583]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known terror targets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47013]]></link><description><![CDATA[In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this and take them across the country with them and that's how these bands come to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This year he won't be denied. He's just awesome. He is only a sophomore, too. Next year, people better watch out in that heavy weight division.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036]]></link><description><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/371</guid></item></channel></rss>