<?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[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25626]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so we can learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[perpetrators tried to tamper with samples and destroy the incriminating evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34850]]></link><description><![CDATA[perpetrators tried to tamper with samples and destroy the incriminating evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2869]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57183]]></link><description><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,   Then must it be an awful thing to die;    More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was time for a change in the Macoupin County Sheriff's Department and a new way of doing business. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33744]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was time for a change in the Macoupin County Sheriff's Department and a new way of doing business. I have begun that change and I bring with me two decades of law enforcement experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57471]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33811]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33811</guid></item></channel></rss>