<?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[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15706]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility educates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility educates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48875]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022</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[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1990</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[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money makes the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money makes the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rider is a real good team. I thought we wrestled fairly well for the most part, but we didn't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rider is a real good team. I thought we wrestled fairly well for the most part, but we didn't do as well in some areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender love, then wouldst thou care nought for thine own convenience or inconvenience, but wouldst rather rejoice at trouble brought upon thee, because the love of Jesus maketh a man to despise himself. He that loveth Jesus and is inwardly true and free from inordinate affections, is able to turn himself readily unto God, and to rise above himself in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."    "And Pluto?"     "A fable; we perish utterly."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876</guid></item></channel></rss>