<?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[Happiness is the longing for repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17711]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, and low,    The full notes closer grow;     Hard, what a torrent gush!      They pour, they overflow--       Sing on, sing on, O thrush!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs! -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs! -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was fragmented volume, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42133]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was fragmented volume,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   Our body has this defect that, the more it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33684]]></link><description><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not ask people if they are illegal. If someone needs us, we try to serve them the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not ask people if they are illegal. If someone needs us, we try to serve them the best way possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night;   No lark so blithe as he.    And this the burden of his song,     Forever used to be,--      "I care for nobody, not I,       If no one cares for me."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55383]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43037]]></link><description><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53402]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt,  Quid mente caeca torques spiritum?   Tibi dico, avare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succour meets with ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50839]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succour meets with ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above;   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;    And to be wrothe with one we love     Doth work like madness in the brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case is usual in persons of quiet natural tempers, who have had the advantage of education under means of light and grace. God ofttimes, in such persons, begins and carries on the work of his grace insensibly, so that they come to good growth and maturity before they know that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item></channel></rss>