<?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[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468]]></link><description><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and undermine the very institutions that the people of Somalia so ardently desire and the international community and the United Nations are willing to support,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26416]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer for their clubs, to enjoy the (matches).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards the life of the soul and its deliverance from captivity under flesh and blood. But this inward work of God, though never ceasing or altering, is yet always and only hindered by the activity of our own nature and faculties, by bad men through their obedience to earthly passions and by good men through their striving to be good in their own way, by their natural strength and a multiplicity of holy labours and contrivances. Both these sorts of people obstruct the work of God upon their souls. For we can cooperate with God no other way than by submitting to the work of God, and seeking, and leaving ourselves to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NBC in Madison should have been more concerned. I don't think at all that it's a fair depiction of Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39295]]></link><description><![CDATA[NBC in Madison should have been more concerned. I don't think at all that it's a fair depiction of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46617]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12036]]></link><description><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The pilot episode of Hatching, Matching & Dispatching (produced and co-written by Walsh) ran in January as part of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35587]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The pilot episode of Hatching, Matching & Dispatching (produced and co-written by Walsh) ran in January as part of a CBC test -- the broadcaster ran three shows and asked for public feedback before making any commitments. Walsh's show, about the Furey family who own a funeral home/wedding chapel/ambulance service, got the most response -- more than 4,700 calls and emails, 95 per cent positive.] I figured a certain portion of Newfoundland wouldn't like it because traditionally they don't, ... There's a pocket that didn't like CODCO , but the majority of the island absolutely adored it. There are always people saying we don't like the way you're representing us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38633]]></link><description><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident that we can continue generating solid cash earnings growth in 2001 and beyond, led by continued success in our retail store business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were so many variables to look at and consider, hauling and such. It wasn't only cost. But they also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39475]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were so many variables to look at and consider, hauling and such. It wasn't only cost. But they also came in as the low-cost provider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32037]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about why things happen the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about why things happen the way they do. Specifically, I have learned that everything outside of me is a mirror of what is inside of me. I have also learned how to "infect the quantum field" or manifest reality by concentrating on particular ideas that I want to call into existance. My career success is due in large part to this new understanding of quantum physics, combined with the love and trust I share with Brian [Lewis].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item></channel></rss>