<?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[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white butterfly   Dancing before the fitful gale,    Far out at sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47406]]></link><description><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid question will always receive a confident answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid question will always receive a confident answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But great individual talent isn't what wins games in the NBA. The guys have to all be on the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31927]]></link><description><![CDATA[But great individual talent isn't what wins games in the NBA. The guys have to all be on the same page to win. I'm not sure they had that last season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap metal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33095]]></link><description><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything -- gay, straight, whatever -- just how cool Willie is and ... his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got this information. And there's definitely an interest out there. The more we can educate people, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33778]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got this information. And there's definitely an interest out there. The more we can educate people, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18899]]></link><description><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish she sails to sea,   And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em.    Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep,     Ply every oar, and cheerly with her,      While slow the bending net we sweep,       God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. The trick is to find the brands that are unique, but not so niche and so in-the-know that only 12 people who live in the neighborhood will get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34135]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up later in the year. Based on the tone of the last earnings call, I?m not expecting to see a spike for them in the third quarter. The next big question is: What is 2006 going to look like in terms of how the boating season shapes up and how successful will these new initiatives be that the management is waiting on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we work hard and we deserve a lot more respect than we're getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59846]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item></channel></rss>