<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory dies not, and the grief is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory dies not, and the grief is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, as well as to how this process is managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the last few years. We've had big one-day rallies that didn't really show any sustainability -- so my hope is that the market will hold here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892]]></link><description><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268]]></link><description><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I,  My thoughts without ceasing brood over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I,  My thoughts without ceasing brood over   A tale of the time gone by.    [Ger., Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten,     Dass ich so traurig bin:      Ein marchen aus alten Zeiten       Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.  Of all the wonders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.  Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.   It seems to me most strange that men should fear,    Seeing that death, a necessary end,     Will come when it will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to fall apart a little here and there, but we stuck to our game plan and (we're) just going to continue to work with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60530]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went back to see the damage and boy was there some damage. The house was totally gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went back to see the damage and boy was there some damage. The house was totally gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30925</guid></item></channel></rss>