<?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[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping every action. It rests upon a conviction that God is the Sole Source of Holiness, and that our part is to lean upon Him and be absolutely guided and governed by Him; and it necessitates an abiding hold on Him, a perpetual habit of listening for His Voice within the heart, as of readiness to obey the dictates of that Voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33395]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new and different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies that we have deployed would have a low chance of finding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5624]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45210]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22758]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10137]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12752]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item></channel></rss>