<?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[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore,  With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir,   Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he go 41 other times? I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660</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[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37361]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an easy thing for them to pack it in. We talked about some things at halftime and put it on their shoulders to come out in the second half and do it, and they did it one goal at a time. I'm really proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But certain winds will make men's temper bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61643]]></link><description><![CDATA[But certain winds will make men's temper bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make a winner when you win. I think we can have a good crack for the next two months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30068]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make a winner when you win. I think we can have a good crack for the next two months and for the next 10 years, too, maybe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found demanding, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a program that's working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28678]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a program that's working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a project that we've been trying to get off the ground for some time now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32163]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a project that we've been trying to get off the ground for some time now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59757</guid></item></channel></rss>