<?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[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen be your apples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3570]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.   But with a blessing every glade receives    High salutation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the NHL's repair year, ... They have to treat it almost like a new production introduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39951]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the NHL's repair year, ... They have to treat it almost like a new production introduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,  Butcher'd to make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19571]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,  Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a big thrill not only for our boys, but for the families. And we are all so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40111]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a big thrill not only for our boys, but for the families. And we are all so grateful for the opportunity. These boys are growing up right before our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both my parents really valued public education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   The wren with little quill--    . . . .     The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,      The plain-song cuckoo grey,       Whose note full many a man doth mark,        And dares not answer nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228</guid></item></channel></rss>