<?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[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27774]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52013]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55792]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do a better job ourselves of kick coverage, punt protections and extra points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29445]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, too ... I think there is a sort of emptiness in our look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono  Scerne il dolor del fallo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820]]></link><description><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37895]]></link><description><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits of this project will stay in San Diego.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42260</guid></item></channel></rss>