<?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[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52932]]></link><description><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away,   Then take her by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I want to force them to play me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made:  Men scent our fragrance on the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made:  Men scent our fragrance on the air,   Yet take no heed    Of humble lessons we would read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,   Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,    The poorer and the baser you appear,     The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30778]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, such as the rate of goal-scoring, bears out their expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;   He, only in a general honest thought    And common good to all, made one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Kong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29223]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Kong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30757]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going to be the most attractive team for free agency whether we have a salary cap or no salary cap. We have the resources to compete either way. Just tell us what the rules are and we'll play by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30757</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[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold at least 500 cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on offense, and I'm disappointed we didn't capitalize on those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would not in mine age   Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23884</guid></item></channel></rss>