<?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[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing into the pipeline this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32170]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't focusing on me and I could get open. That's how it's supposed to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23396]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,   Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mask is dropped... They died for Halliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mask is dropped... They died for Halliburton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34943]]></link><description><![CDATA[[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause.] He didn't call. He didn't write, ... you draw certain conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once  Indebted and discharg'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18158]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once  Indebted and discharg'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44127]]></link><description><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37473]]></link><description><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is everything a coach could ask for in a hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best,   And turn'd some very serious things to jest.    Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers,     Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers;      "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute!       Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote.        We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes         Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens,          When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die,"           And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bats stayed alive today and we got the little hits when we needed them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bats stayed alive today and we got the little hits when we needed them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item></channel></rss>