<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9891]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person and a great friend, and he's helped us all understand his culture a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63545]]></link><description><![CDATA[True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the continued shocks which his words and deeds gave me as I approached the Gospels uninsulated by the familiar cover of beautiful language. The figure who emerged is quite unlike the Jesus of conventional piety, and even more unlike that imagined hero whom members of various causes claim as their champion. What we are so often confronted with today is a "processed" Jesus. Every element that we feel is not consonant with our "image" of him is removed, and the result is more insipid and unsatisfying than the worst of processed food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware how you take away hope from another human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1383]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she winds them round a young man's neck,   She will not ever set him free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries where we came from during International Day. We need to show our support and love for the U.S. on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes have one language every where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes have one language every where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13022]]></link><description><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item></channel></rss>