<?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[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18581]]></link><description><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen be your apples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41665]]></link><description><![CDATA[As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10333]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41394]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4629]]></link><description><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human face divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human face divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the image of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the image of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32053]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof  Of deeds, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11672]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof  Of deeds, not words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8920]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,   Must kiss their own feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes to the basket strong and gives us some toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35736]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible to avoid any war in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently reunited, back in 1990. You have about 16 to 17 million people; you have about 50 million guns. It's basically a country that is pretty trigger happy. It's very generous, very hospitable to foreigners, but on the other hand, there's always that element of risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55101</guid></item></channel></rss>