<?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[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,   And 'tis beloved of many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone will do),   That I may call my own;    And close at hand is such a one     In yonder street that fronts the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48891]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour  Assures not another. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour  Assures not another. The will and the power   Are diverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent,  An early but enduring monument, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent,  An early but enduring monument,   Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song    In sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over how it's spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4630]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51354]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</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[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14772]]></link><description><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65568]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27292]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item></channel></rss>