<?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[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really takes pride in that. He's quick and he loves to play defense. There were a couple of points ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really takes pride in that. He's quick and he loves to play defense. There were a couple of points where we needed a spark, and he brought it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To de-gnome a garden, grab the gnome by the ankles and swing it around your head, and then throw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50445]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primroses were over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primroses were over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is more drest then the soule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is more drest then the soule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47002]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to a 2-3 for a little bit and didn't do too bad of a job with it. They were shooting well the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40504]]></link><description><![CDATA[More students should really have access to this program. We'll apply for grants and seek support from private corporations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the bigger team. We couldn't just play them in the half court. We wanted to pressure them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20945]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my faith shall out-watch all this winter-night, and not nod or slumber, till my Lord's summer-day dawn upon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,  Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,  Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place   And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run    Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,     And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from Kennebec Rental in Fairfield where Bob works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as much as we usually do. We wanted to make it a point to go inside out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41041</guid></item></channel></rss>