<?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[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young female wolverine we collared weighed about 19 pounds, and was in excellent health and condition. She hasn't had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young female wolverine we collared weighed about 19 pounds, and was in excellent health and condition. She hasn't had kits yet, and is probably just a year old. It's likely that her parents and possibly siblings are in the same general area, so chances are good that we will collar additional individuals in the traps we've set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6085]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43976</guid></item></channel></rss>