<?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[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, we may have to look at canceling a trip or cutting the schedule down by a couple of games for next season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need notobscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21812</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[Knowledge is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting used to. The power was there, and every red light was a temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14862]]></link><description><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, I again appear in Thy presence the wretched misspender of another year which Thy mercy has allowed me. O Lord let me not sink into total depravity, look down upon me, and rescue me at last from the captivity of sin. Impart to me good resolutions, and give me strength and perseverance to perform them. Take not from me Thy Holy Spirit, but grant that I may redeem the time lost, and that by temperance and diligence, by sincere repentance and faithful obedience I may finally attain everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above,  For love is heaven and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above,  For love is heaven and heaven is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There isn't more night than day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/96]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/96</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was truly a unique thing to see, and I'm so proud of her. It was like watching a real-life high jumper, not a student or a person just trying to score points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope all Iraqis will vote 'Yes' to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope all Iraqis will vote 'Yes' to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk favors some widening but I expect only slight moderation in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38804</guid></item></channel></rss>