<?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[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke.  Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543]]></link><description><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red blood.] See that right there from Marcus? ... That was my worst wound of the night, and it came from Marcus. We jumped into one another, and Marcus' braces caught in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We didn't know if we would oppose the bond or not. We actually conversed with doctor (Stan) Olson and toured twelve of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unbelievable . . . As I told Martha's people, the marathon event is as hot as it's ever been, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unbelievable . . . As I told Martha's people, the marathon event is as hot as it's ever been, and very popular among people of all abilities. Having someone like Martha involved is great for the sport and great for her company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail,  When ladies dare to hear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51086]]></link><description><![CDATA[But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail,  When ladies dare to hear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21406]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a thing loves, it is infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20816]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a thing loves, it is infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The map is not the territory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The map is not the territory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56091]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11349</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4898]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,   Nor think o'Donald mair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is going to be a great game, you have two good programs going against each other. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is going to be a great game, you have two good programs going against each other. It is going to be a good test for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles of underwriting claims very well managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359]]></link><description><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40487]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65231]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location, location, location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Location, location, location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item></channel></rss>