<?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[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13699]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that 'side-deals', as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March comes in with an adder's head, and goes out with a peacock's tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26365]]></link><description><![CDATA[March comes in with an adder's head, and goes out with a peacock's tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour   A thousand melodies unheard before!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a 60-mile stretch of road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq, a convoy of more than 2,000 vehicles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5441]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a 60-mile stretch of road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq, a convoy of more than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were fleeing. These were people who were putting up no resistance, many with no weapons, leaving in cars, trucks, carts, and on foot. The American armed forces bombed one endof the main highway from Kuwait City to Basra, sealing it off andthen bombed the other end of the highway, sealing it off. Theypositioned mechanized artillery units on the hill overlooking thearea and then, both from the air and the land, massacred every livingthing on the road. Fighter bombers, helicopter gunships, and armoredbattalions poured merciless firepower on those trapped in the trafficjams, backed up as much as 20 miles. One U.S. pilot reportedlysaid, It was like shooting fish in a barrel. That fateful stretchof road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.In a report submitted to the Commission of Inquiry for theInternational War Crimes Tribunal, charges are made that those killedwere Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the siege ofKuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. The report claimsthat no attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguishbetween military personnel and civilians.*****The Guardian newspaper in the UK has written of the 9000Iraqis killed by the RAF bombs in 1920, one of the 6 timesBritish oil interests have violated the people of Iraq in thelast 86 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. [Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. [Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces   When Malindy sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a purist. There are a lot of different championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be some volatility to the market, but barring any other major disruptions, I think we'll continue to head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be some volatility to the market, but barring any other major disruptions, I think we'll continue to head lower in prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate to 1.9 percent, up against the Fed's outer boundary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've been around long enough to realize the situation I was in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very excited that Downs is bringing this forward. We've been waiting for it for some time. It's filling a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28177]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very excited that Downs is bringing this forward. We've been waiting for it for some time. It's filling a need ... in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32535]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But they didn't really suggest strong support for American policy, which would be very difficult since that's a sure voter loser in Germany.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are strong results from BT and that they should be well received by the market... there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are strong results from BT and that they should be well received by the market... there is more to BT than revenues. We believe these results from BT confirm that view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item></channel></rss>