<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Perspective - 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 would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46409]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408]]></link><description><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is free who is not a master of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46396]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is free who is not a master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46392]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds think alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds think alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item></channel></rss>