<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50136]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ride (eight seconds) or die in this sport, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39155]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ride (eight seconds) or die in this sport,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50816]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,   And partings yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50942]]></link><description><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread a city to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have peace with God by the righteousness of Christ, and peace of conscience by the fruits of righteousness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have peace with God by the righteousness of Christ, and peace of conscience by the fruits of righteousness in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him. When I meet him there, I shall be able to tell him, and then he will be as able to tell me; yet then we shall be but able to tell one another. This, this that we enjoy is heaven, but the tongues of Angels, the tongues of glorified Saints, shall not be able to express what that heaven is; for, even in heaven our faculties shall be finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8205</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31010]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest of distinctions is service to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest of distinctions is service to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51891]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:  And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33169]]></link><description><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm action was both justified and necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5822]]></link><description><![CDATA[So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41154]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41154</guid></item></channel></rss>