<?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[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring   On the angler's trysting-tree?    Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me,     Are there buds on our willow-tree?      Buds and birds on our trysting tree?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214]]></link><description><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28765]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine,  Fair H2O, long may you flow,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine,  Fair H2O, long may you flow,   We think your health (in wine).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the team goes, other than Riley, we left some strokes out on the course today. We'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30426]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the team goes, other than Riley, we left some strokes out on the course today. We'll get back after it, starting in Pierre on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574]]></link><description><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People point out that Romeo's never been a head coach, and this is definitely a big move that he's making, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38174]]></link><description><![CDATA[People point out that Romeo's never been a head coach, and this is definitely a big move that he's making,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolves are a high-profile species and the fact of the matter is the (Fish and Wildlife) Service has a hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wolves are a high-profile species and the fact of the matter is the (Fish and Wildlife) Service has a hard time getting anything off the endangered species list. We do think it's time for a creative approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is brave is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, isto argue disbelief in the dignity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, isto argue disbelief in the dignity of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6334]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the Church is built across cultural, social, and racial barriers. There are siren voices (as well as gut reactions) telling Christians that the way to success in evangelism is to follow the natural divisions, and to try to build churches along cultural, social and racial divisions. In doing so, they ignore the "success" in the New Testament in crossing these lines; more importantly, they are in fact stressing success more highly than the truth of the gospel. To buy success at the price of treating the fundamental nature of the gospel as dispensable is to follow a false gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1493</guid></item></channel></rss>