<?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 is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With tooth and nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With tooth and nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow   In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just felt so bad for him ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ his year has been that way. He's had such strong cars in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just felt so bad for him ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ his year has been that way. He's had such strong cars in every race. I think he's probably had the strongest car over the year, but he's had the worst luck over the year. I just felt so bad when I saw that thing stall. I couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;  Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno  Si leggesse in fronte scritto,   Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,    Ci farebbero pieta!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if they say it's safe, I don't know if I want to stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if they say it's safe, I don't know if I want to stay here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65252]]></link><description><![CDATA[To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock at a higher valuation, ... If you keep raising estimates, you probably could keep expanding the multiple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55458]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown and bare,   Over the harvest-fields forsaken,    Silent, and soft, and slow     Descends the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18411]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6402]]></link><description><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a clear sign that a person has also given up the very battle that a Christian is summoned to fight. The Psalms are prayers for those who are engaged in an ongoing, spiritual conflict. No one else need bother even opening the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44924</guid></item></channel></rss>