<?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[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18514]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40297]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. When you could keep them out of their chairs, that's when you knew you won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. We don't want to get beat by Michigan any time. To go up there and play like that just hurts a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25588]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4056]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16177]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men of wit   Will condescend to take a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do not know the man I should avoid   So soon as that spare Cassius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides behind a magisterial air   He own offences, and strips others' bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19038]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress made it one upon my cheek:   She is so hot because the meat is cold;    The meat is cold because you come not home;     You come not home because you have no stomach;      You have no stomach, having broke your fast;       But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,        Are penitent for your default to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item></channel></rss>