<?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[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66227]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.   And foolish notion;    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,     And ev'n devotion!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7197]]></link><description><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36759]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control anything because it was uncontrolled at City Hall. It was a mess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45863]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45863</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[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51630]]></link><description><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's cause,   And bide by the buff and the blue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011</guid></item></channel></rss>