<?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[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[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13740]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't worry about it. I'm feeling more comfortable every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54882]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42922]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center (EADRCC) is coordinating responses to this request by allies and NATO partners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item></channel></rss>