<?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[Good wine needs no bush ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[absolute disaster ... I'm hopeful that it will represent the low point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35679]]></link><description><![CDATA[absolute disaster ... I'm hopeful that it will represent the low point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50267]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went to some clear-out plays to attack and try to draw some fouls on them. I didn't know if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went to some clear-out plays to attack and try to draw some fouls on them. I didn't know if that was going to work, but eventually it did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</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[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. We've got to start playing passionately from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin   (Friends of the party) who begin accusals,    Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen     Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals      To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,       Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God our Life and King Has given us light and spring and morning breaking Now may man's soul arise as kinsman to the skies, And God unseals his eyes to an awaking. Sing, creatures, sing; the dust that lives by lure and lust Is kindled by the thrust of life undying; This hope our Master bare has made all fortunes fair, And man can on and dare, his death defying. After the winter snows a wind of healing blows, And thorns put forth a rose, and lilies cheer us; Life's everlasting spring has robbed death of his sting, Henceforth a cry can bring our Master near us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, whatever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, whatever,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item></channel></rss>