<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26757]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially when you get the curly koa. Because of the complexity of the grain, it's a very challenging wood. Mango is a fabulous wood and it's underrated. For some reason, it doesn't carry the influence that koa does. Mango is some beautiful wood. I work some 30 varieties, generally, because I love the variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing good or evil save in the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing good or evil save in the will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the sky is the limit if money is no problem. There are wine cellars . . . in the $100,000-plus range. Whatever you build, plan on spending $3 to $5 per bottle of wine for racking with a quality wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind,  And therefore cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind,  And therefore cast into these noble moulds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41319]]></link><description><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a peep-hole on a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a peep-hole on a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28406</guid></item></channel></rss>