<?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[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,   And opens in each heart a little Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that and understand how they have to play the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is no doubt how good Clovis West is, but I thought our players were kind of intimidated and I was disappointed that we didn't compete better. I felt like some of the kids gave up and just went through the motions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and down my bench and see a lot of guys who have had gold medals around their necks. That's a big advantage in a game like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51129]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51129</guid></item></channel></rss>