<?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[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33498]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33029]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian and Carlton best-and-fairest winner in 1999, is believed to have told the club that he intends to retire but has been persuaded by Sheedy to reconsider.] Sheeds wanted him to stay and even James Hird spoke with him, ... They wanted him to go another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become the new standard. If you want to get on that podium, it's mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become the new standard. If you want to get on that podium, it's mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31669]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been a lot tougher. We began running a zone offense to combat Plant's defense. All we did in the lead-up to that game was concentrate on beating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a lot of development and planning experience in the Central Valley, not Bay Area experience, and that's important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a lot of development and planning experience in the Central Valley, not Bay Area experience, and that's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52034]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing left that really reaches the mass audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would not in mine age   Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shippe and a woman are ever repairing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60724]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33601]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, and rightly so,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56747</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[We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32267]]></link><description><![CDATA[We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, but we respect all fighters.we fight to win, not to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</guid></item></channel></rss>