<?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[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is my own church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53547]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is my own church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed fish, and these men would never again kill Serb children in the Serb Drina valley. But they would let the women go so they can suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour in your wounded hands,   Carried our honour safe with bleeding feet--    We have no glory great enough for you,     The very soul of Britain keeps your day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want to gradually reduce the number of troops that we have in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And the Cabots walk with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should stay at the same level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplating this blighted and sinister career, the lesson is burnt in upon the conscience, that since Judas by transgression fell, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplating this blighted and sinister career, the lesson is burnt in upon the conscience, that since Judas by transgression fell, no place in the Church of Christ can render any man secure. And since, falling, he was openly exposed, none may flatter himself that the cause of Christ is bound up with his reputation, that the mischief must needs be averted which his downfall would entail, that Providence must needs avert from him the natural penalties for evil-doing. Though one was as the signet upon the Lord's hand, yet was he plucked thence. There is no security for any soul except where love and trust repose, upon the bosom of Christ. Now if this be true, and if sin and scandal may conceivably penetrate even the inmost circle of the chosen, how great an error it is to break, because of these offenses, the unity of the Church, and institute some new communion, purer far than the Churches of Corinth and Galatia, which were not abandoned but reformed, and more impenetrable to corruption than the little group of those who ate and drank with Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote   Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,    And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything great achieved without danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything great achieved without danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident could have happened twice ? that lightning strikes twice. I believe it does. I think this is one [case] where there was reasonable doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every breath is a second chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every breath is a second chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446</guid></item></channel></rss>