<?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[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the cell were a forest, we can now pull out individual trees to study them. We are using virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the cell were a forest, we can now pull out individual trees to study them. We are using virtual reality approaches as they are being developed for the computer gaming industry. Nonetheless, what we eventually want to do is to be able to walk into the forest and explore it in that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63608]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of love, 'tis to abide with Thee. Thou knowest I love Thee, Jesus Christ, my Own!   Thy Spirit's fire of love enkindleth me. By loving Thee, I draw the Father here   Down to my heart, to stay with me always. Blest Trinity! Thou art my prisoner dear,   Of love, to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would imagine that most people who read newspapers and look at Web sites are aware of headlines being made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would imagine that most people who read newspapers and look at Web sites are aware of headlines being made on substantially higher metal costs. If retailer costs go up, eventually the consumer pays for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was OK. But Courtney messed it up. Our free throw shooting definitely carried us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was OK. But Courtney messed it up. Our free throw shooting definitely carried us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of snow,   Dirtier than the ground below,    Dribbles down a marshy flood;     Ankle-deep you stick in mud      In the meadows while you sing,       "This is Spring."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20540</guid></item></channel></rss>