<?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[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062]]></link><description><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4908]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ... there may be some scientists who have a deep grudge against the United States. Who knows [if they] are going to try to find some way to get revenge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58201]]></link><description><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the blackberry beesreorchestrate their chant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43491]]></link><description><![CDATA[the blackberry beesreorchestrate their chant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to work with Titan to review all relevant information related to Titan's relationship with international consultants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to work with Titan to review all relevant information related to Titan's relationship with international consultants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143</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[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business, and the propensity is to increase consumer prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38409]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on fire - so that the police would have to respond and come down here. And when they did, some of the lads were waiting and had a crack at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref gets put in that situation -- somebody who weighs 215 going against somebody who weighs 165 -- it's an obvious call to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44293]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790</guid></item></channel></rss>