<?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[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At dinner my man appeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49141]]></link><description><![CDATA[At dinner my man appeares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books leave us free and some books make us free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity.  It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. It is here that our old vanity and our illicit claims upon God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our own inner poverty were quite beneath our dignity. With that attitude, we shall make no progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our negotiating stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, a matter of hours. And now they tell us there's nothing they can do, and nothing they're going to do, about the outright racist abuse of Muslims by U.S. troops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could very well get back into the playoffs with this caliber team. We're going to be young, and they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could very well get back into the playoffs with this caliber team. We're going to be young, and they're going to make some mistakes along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27109</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This past weekend we had a retreat with the board members and came up with a business plan to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41496]]></link><description><![CDATA[This past weekend we had a retreat with the board members and came up with a business plan to see where we are ... if we can move forward or have to close down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item></channel></rss>