<?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[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46443</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is the Church's mission to confront the world from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is the Church's mission to confront the world from the Godward side of life with the Christian principles of a free and just society. The dignity, the value, and the importance of every individual are made abundantly clear by the Son of God. He has shown us what human life is intended to be, and we must be willing to stand against whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of the world, or of any segment of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595]]></link><description><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... That same philosophy that allowed us to win the space race slowed us down after the space race. The same people were in charge, the same philosophy was there. There was no incentive to make it economical or commercially feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5444]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration?  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,   Creating awe and fear in other men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?  He barr'd from every use of wealth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?  He barr'd from every use of wealth,   Envies the ploughman's strength and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768]]></link><description><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37186]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She: Combines an entrepreneurial spirit with skills as a former computer specialist and corporate trainer to design real-world projects incorporating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31134]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She: Combines an entrepreneurial spirit with skills as a former computer specialist and corporate trainer to design real-world projects incorporating task management, teamwork, responsibility, etiquette, success and failure; Has entrepreneurship students form companies to make and market products, complete tasks in an Apprentice-like game and manage a community golf tournament that raises up to $3,000 a year for charity; Advises student council and school online magazine, www.dawgmag.org; Turns simple keyboarding drills into PowerPoint-driven games with raffle tickets for small prizes; Videoconferencing with All-USA Teacher Teammate Pam Vaughan and her rural Arkansas chemistry class for a year-long project in which her students will market soap made by Vaughan's students; Collaborates with local businesses and corporations to form districtwide partnerships;] She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy, ... When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have stuck with it. They deserve to be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26849]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607</guid></item></channel></rss>