<?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[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55517]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885</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[I like men who have a future and women who have a past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like men who have a future and women who have a past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you categorically that is not happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you categorically that is not happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior year we'd be good. We're trying to do more than make the playoffs. That was our expectations at the beginning of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. Interesting textures. Going back to classics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all  Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy  Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall  Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed,  What are they when the double death is nigh?  The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest  My soul that turns to His great love on high,  Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, fever ridden, on a bed He lies; Homeless He wanders now beneath the stars; Now counts the number of His prison bars; Now bends beside us, crowned with hoary hairs. No need have we to climb the heavenly stairs And press our kisses on His feet and hands; In every man that suffers, He, the Man of Sorrows, stands.  ... Anonymous    March 5, 1998  When we have, through Christ, obtained mercy for our persons, we need not fear but that we shall have suitable and seasonable help for our duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11553]]></link><description><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518</guid></item></channel></rss>