<?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[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of different things that you can do with these mice is huge. One can say, 'OK, show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of different things that you can do with these mice is huge. One can say, 'OK, show me all the mice that are anemic,' ... and you immediately come up with a list of genes, many of which you never would have thought of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638]]></link><description><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and sweet,   "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a country redneck bloke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a country redneck bloke]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are some who want wild horses to get more and some who don't want them to get any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34965</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[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6343]]></link><description><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes could and did err and because councils could and did err that Luther came to realize the supremacy of Scripture. Luther did not despise church authority, nor did he repudiate church councils as having no value. His praise of the Council of Nicaea is noteworthy. Luther and the Reformers did not mean by "Sola Scriptura" that the Bible is the only authority in the church; rather, they meant that the Bible is the only infallible authority in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your mind is clear as to what you are trying to do, if you can say what you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your mind is clear as to what you are trying to do, if you can say what you want out of life and make your money move in that direction, you will be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an assist first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a huge revision. The economy of the Inland Empire is much stronger than they were originally reporting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34733]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a huge revision. The economy of the Inland Empire is much stronger than they were originally reporting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-iscalled the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "DeadZone.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49542]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044</guid></item></channel></rss>