<?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[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48041]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach a bed may show   Of human bliss to human woe.    [Fr., Theatre des ris et des pleurs     Lit! ou je nais, et ou je meurs,      Tu nous fais voir comment voisins       Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is my greatest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is my greatest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38432]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's lots of fun. We hope everyone will attend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33317]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's lots of fun. We hope everyone will attend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were respected by the community. How is the community going to treat us now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were respected by the community. How is the community going to treat us now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I might have to cruise into Barrington tomorrow morning, ... and put a banana in his tailpipe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I might have to cruise into Barrington tomorrow morning, ... and put a banana in his tailpipe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2529]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58208]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. But overall, we weren't at our best today. Some kids just had an off day today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national parliaments in order to move from one regime to the other and this can take a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15057]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15057</guid></item></channel></rss>