<?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[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so much. I didn't put her photo in a frame where I could see it. I stored it all away. I kept them, and every once in a while I'd look through them for a few minutes and then put it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62870]]></link><description><![CDATA[No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a three, off-balance, on one leg and makes it. Congratulations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15811</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they can feel whether   A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53168]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20269]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32737]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64305]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has found   The warmest welcome, at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26264</guid></item></channel></rss>