Melancholy - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26901<![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26902<![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903<![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904<![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896<![CDATA[What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897<![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26898<![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26899<![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900<![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26895<![CDATA[The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26890<![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26891<![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892<![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26893<![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26894<![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26886<![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26887<![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26888<![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889<![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26882<![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26883<![CDATA[Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26884<![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876<![CDATA[All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26877<![CDATA[The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26878<![CDATA[The peace makers shall be called the children of God. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26879<![CDATA[Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26880<![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881<![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874<![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875<![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869<![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870<![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26872<![CDATA[Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26873<![CDATA[Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26866<![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14]. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26867<![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26868<![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26858<![CDATA[Don't tell me peace has broken out. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26859<![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26860<![CDATA[Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26861<![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862<![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863<![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864<![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865<![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853<![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26854<![CDATA[Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26855<![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857<![CDATA[Punishment is justice for the unjust. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26851