<?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[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't control, the charges the tugs charge to provide assistance is competitive to other ports. The same holds true for our pilots, the guys who physically guide the ship in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man   Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintythat something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been one of the strongest park acquisition and open space tools local government has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been one of the strongest park acquisition and open space tools local government has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66718]]></link><description><![CDATA[What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we have to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29664]]></link><description><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but in the end it was a [win] for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington as I am]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just aboutunimaginable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21856]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just aboutunimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;  Here's health and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44712]]></link><description><![CDATA[A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;  Here's health and renown to his broad green crown,   And his fifty arms so strong.    There's fear in his frown when the Sun goes down,     And the fire in the West fades out;      And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,       When the storms through his branches shout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44712</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[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23896]]></link><description><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having the No.1 seed in a five-team district has a distinct advantage. That's something we're shooting for. Hopefully the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having the No.1 seed in a five-team district has a distinct advantage. That's something we're shooting for. Hopefully the kids will understand the importance of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47358]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16367]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62830</guid></item></channel></rss>