<?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[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the world you will find it not;   It was fought by the mothers of men.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</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[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45293]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44185]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16460]]></link><description><![CDATA[In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43183]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up in silks so fine,   And praise and toast me at his wine."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Brian can stay out of foul trouble, he's tough to defend in there. He has quick moves and does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28190]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Brian can stay out of foul trouble, he's tough to defend in there. He has quick moves and does a good job on the boards. He had a great game tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautifuljewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no one can beat me. Just know that the pitcher isn't going to beat you every at-bat. In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and that means you're a great hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8411]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55619]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50931]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like my baby. If I leave her alone for a few hours, she gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29324]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like my baby. If I leave her alone for a few hours, she gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19509]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60911</guid></item></channel></rss>