<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, though not animate,   Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,    That only eyes of spirits might behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to find what sort of thoughts I have, for a moment, been addressing to God; what infantile placations I was really offering, what claims I have really made, even what absurd adjustments or compromises I was, half-consciously, proposing. There is a Pagan, savage heart in me somewhere. For unfortunately the folly and idiot-cunning of Paganism seem to have far more power of surviving than its innocent or even beautiful elements. It is easy, once you have power, to silence the pipes, still the dances, disfigure the statues, and forget the stories; but not easy to kill the savage, the greedy, frightened creature now cringing, now blustering in one's soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54753]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than a quarter of the state's economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much,  Of dreamer turned to lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25080]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much,  Of dreamer turned to lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,   All benefits are there in common set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made it hold up with a solid run. He's the real deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,   The mind annihilates, and calls for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37892]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile presence for the group in North America that will complement Shangri-La's developments in Miami, Chicago and Vancouver. Guests at the Shangri-La Hotel, Las Vegas will experience a new brand of sophisticated hospitality - warm, distinctively Asian, with highly personalized service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Firefighters Park, there's a lake people fish at all the time, ... There's disc golf and lake fishing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31104]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Firefighters Park, there's a lake people fish at all the time, ... There's disc golf and lake fishing from shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,    He shall not blind his soul with clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929</guid></item></channel></rss>