<?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[We will lose control of our home affairs. We will lose control, I believe, eventually of our foreign policy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42453]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will lose control of our home affairs. We will lose control, I believe, eventually of our foreign policy and our defense policy. I find these totally unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so critical that on every level, every individual becomes prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so critical that on every level, every individual becomes prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have 15 guys on the team. When somebody goes down, other people have to step up and take the challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546]]></link><description><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59838]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of falsepropaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536]]></link><description><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. We think this is a very good approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32916]]></link><description><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of a situation or a threat. It shows we could be at any of these places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32916</guid></item></channel></rss>