<?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[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And she combs her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find the right fit as we move forward to renew men's basketball at Duquesne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want the last word, apologize ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want the last word, apologize]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26094</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you\'re selling, storage or networking or security, you\'re going head to head with the incumbent players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you\'re selling, storage or networking or security, you\'re going head to head with the incumbent players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like a land of dreams,   So various, so beautiful, so new,    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,     Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44972]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world is good and the people are good,   And we're all good fellows together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You're sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You're sort of diving, and then you can't reach it, even if you dive perfectly and on cue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, it did. But I was looking for other options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item></channel></rss>