<?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[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Offensively, his shooting has really opened up a lot for his game. He does it all. He's tough. He can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Offensively, his shooting has really opened up a lot for his game. He does it all. He's tough. He can slash to the basket. Now, he's scoring off the dribble a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better than expected. Semiconductors are going to get a boost from seasonal trends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--  But what is your opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--  But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we took a bad shot or turned the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought   As also in birth and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take in all, and verge enough for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own business. We do it to encourage college students to consider the option of becoming entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He also had authority. If he was running with the ball, there was no way that you would even think of taking it off him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in being an innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in being an innovator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;   The best as the worst are futile here:    We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--     All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to resumption is to resume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to resumption is to resume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. Higginson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962</guid></item></channel></rss>