<?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[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429]]></link><description><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--    "What glory then for me     In such a company?--      Roses plenty, roses plenty       And one nightingale for twenty?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2063]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king already   Hath married the fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</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[Andrew Altman full employment act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Altman full employment act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from your dreams what you lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from your dreams what you lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee soon the truth,   "There are no birds in last year's nest."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,   If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love,   Is working for the best. For when we kneel and cast our care Upon our God in humble prayer,   With strengthened souls we rise, Sure that our Father Who is nigh, To hear the ravens when they cry,   Will hear His children's cries. O may these anxious hearts of ours The lesson learn from birds and flowers,   And learn from self to cease, Leave all things to our Father's will, And in His mercy trusting still,   Find in each trial peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59778]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27904</guid></item></channel></rss>