<?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[A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They need to slow down and be careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24706]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,   And the moon and the stars by night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to figure out if that means districts. We want to make sure we are releasing to school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to figure out if that means districts. We want to make sure we are releasing to school districts information allowed by state law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill's knowledge of the industry will be of great value as we work toward a smooth transition of PacifiCorp into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bill's knowledge of the industry will be of great value as we work toward a smooth transition of PacifiCorp into the MidAmerican organization. Bill has been an outstanding leader for Nebraska Public Power District.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42483]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   So petulant and shrill.    I think there is a knot of you     Beneath the hollow tree,      A knot of spinster Katydids,--       Do Katydids drink tea?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,   What hides the body oft the mind discovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long time between drinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long time between drinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss them.   April knows her own, and is content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65750]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do not take warning and example by them; if instead of reflecting upon ourselves and questioning our ways we fall to censuring others; if we will pervert the meaning of God's providences and will not understand the design and intention of them; then we leave God no other way to awaken us to a consideration of our evil ways but by pouring down his wrath upon our heads, so that he may convince us that we are sinners by the same argument from whence we have concluded others to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525</guid></item></channel></rss>