<?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[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632]]></link><description><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it because we have the best record in the county and we were seeded 10th. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it because we have the best record in the county and we were seeded 10th. We're just going to prove them wrong, that we should've gotten a higher seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64868</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[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances are valid reasons for concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines are not reliable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072]]></link><description><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is high-maintenance, but when it's time to put it all together, it's a devil-may-care attitude to create the finished look. She's not satisfied with one style and likes to keep her court guessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even in the face of this tremendous disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,   And soars and shines, another and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job early in the game but were able to come on late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you look out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain about being 2-0. We had never beaten Milton in Milton before so it was a good win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli audience is more mature today than it was 30 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32008</guid></item></channel></rss>