<?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[Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her (Barbee) is that I know it will be emotional, but she needs to keep playing the way she has and not let it consume her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the start of the healing process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are involved in bringing this plant material, which is probably rare and endangered, back into circulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their courses fleet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61545]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to flower he flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of man could navigate   The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss    Securely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59443]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware how you take away hope from another human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our success. By continuing to expand our array of quality products, and fulfilling our promise to consistently deliver outstanding customer service and product quality, we are attempting to meet the needs of our customers and as a result, also expand our sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6105]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're dealing with some of the same countries that we're dealing with. They're dealing in manufacturing environments as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31379]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're dealing with some of the same countries that we're dealing with. They're dealing in manufacturing environments as well as distributor environments. They're dealing with import and export issues, which is a big part of our business. They understand the fundamentals and have hands-on experience with all supply-chain activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item></channel></rss>