<?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[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is that they are showing that they are strong and that they can take on the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25095]]></link><description><![CDATA["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory   Are human flowers!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18836]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48458]]></link><description><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce   La pena spetta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely to plant corn rootworm corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could prick all such bubbles: Is it scientific? That question has searched religion for contraband goods, stripped it of old superstitions, forced it to change its categories of thought and methods of work, and in general has so cowed and scared religion that many modern-minded believers... instinctively throw up their hands at the mere whisper of it... When a prominent scientist comes out strongly for religion, all the churches thank Heaven and take courage, as though it were the highest possible compliment to God to have Eddington believe in Him. Science has become the arbiter of this generation's thought, until to call even a prophet and a seer 'scientific' is to cap the climax of praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or sectarian or tribal or political discrimination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38375]]></link><description><![CDATA[[DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a little bit more to go, but I felt pretty good, ... I felt like my old self out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might get a No.1 pick like Peyton Manning. Ask the Colts if they think the system is working. Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36021]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might get a No.1 pick like Peyton Manning. Ask the Colts if they think the system is working. Or ask the Cowboys with Troy Aikman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2191</guid></item></channel></rss>