<?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[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52636]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every really new idea looks crazy at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every really new idea looks crazy at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12524]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13247]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2038]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. 1, ... The real value is what's retained within the CPA firm -- the tax planning and the review.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we continue to see a court monitor as unnecessary and counter productive, we are open to finding ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37028]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we continue to see a court monitor as unnecessary and counter productive, we are open to finding ways to work together to better address issues of concern to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to be careful with sparks. It doesn't take much to burn dead grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to be careful with sparks. It doesn't take much to burn dead grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just tried to talk to her and get her to settle down after that first big jump, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just tried to talk to her and get her to settle down after that first big jump, because she was jumping all over the place in celebration afterwards. It's like hitting a home run in baseball. The next time at bat, you swing so hard you can't even see the ball. I wanted her to stay focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30884]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just trying to encourage him and talk to him about what he learned and some of the positives that should have been gained here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted the reform and opening-up policies in 1978.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and in the standing trees. That's been the pattern for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40402</guid></item></channel></rss>