<?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[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely the worst experience of my life that I ever want to live through, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely the worst experience of my life that I ever want to live through,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Middle Market M&A group has been critical to Piper over the last 15 years, and Glenn is a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Middle Market M&A group has been critical to Piper over the last 15 years, and Glenn is a very integral part of that group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35608]]></link><description><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small thanks are still the market price,   Even where the article at highest rate is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. In the second half, our conditioning allowed us to keep our intensity up and play at a pace that helped us extend the lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48787]]></link><description><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had nothing to lose. I think we played a very good tournament and gained a ton of confidence here. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had nothing to lose. I think we played a very good tournament and gained a ton of confidence here. We won a close game, lost a close game to a very good team and got a win today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31295</guid></item></channel></rss>