<?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[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20839]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of the holidays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25887]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price-gouging consumers for essential goods and services by uncaring businesses during this major storm will result in quick action by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price-gouging consumers for essential goods and services by uncaring businesses during this major storm will result in quick action by my office because people could be in dire need and suffering,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781</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[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what we wanted to do. That's what they wanted us to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate women's rights and welfare and the struggle to liberate women without denouncing this particular woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And with the saints, a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;  Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2896]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,  Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30056]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All objects lose by too familiar a view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All objects lose by too familiar a view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -- and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won the victory. But it is sin which is become manifest which can be known, and therefore forgiven. Thus the manifestation of sin belongs to the salvation plan of God with man, and Satan must serve this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39936]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item></channel></rss>