<?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[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. •Horace   Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. •George Brossin Méré   ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. •James Matthew Barrie   In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. •Christopher Morley   Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. •Charles Reade   Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. •Kin Hubbard   Beauty is not caused. It is. •Emily Dickinson   Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. •Edward Gibbon   My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? •Kotomichi   Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. •Campbell  Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. •Mme. de Pompadour  Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. •Pope  Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. •Lazarus Long  Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. •Shakespeare  It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. •The Duchess of Windsor  Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. •Erasmus               The beautiful are never desolate,               But someone always loves them. •Bailey   Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. •Ambrose Bierce   Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. •Luis Cernuda   Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. •Katherine Hepburn  A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. •Helen Rowland  There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. •Countess of Blessington  Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. •Johann von Schiller  When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. •Gregory I  The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. •Marlene Dietrich  Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. •John Keats   I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? •Jean Kerr  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. •Anonymous  What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. •Father Andre   Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. •Aristotle   I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. •Tyra Banks  Exuberance is beauty. •William Blake   Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! •Bessie Delanay  As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. •Kahlil Gibran  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. •Immermann  Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. •Socrates  Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36138]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19943]]></link><description><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had been nominated for best actor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not worth a button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not worth a button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've really enjoyed the series, just playing again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've really enjoyed the series, just playing again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11675]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419]]></link><description><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419</guid></item></channel></rss>