<?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[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13411</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[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out great today but just couldn't maintain our focus all the way through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out great today but just couldn't maintain our focus all the way through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying our dues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the community, and giving it rebirth. The sense of neighborhood and community at the Bethlehem Steel site is a good thing. We intend to be good neighbors, and we intend to create economic rejuvenation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was amazing. That showed us that we can win if we play as a team, no matter who's out there on the court. We've really switched people around ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everybody plays everywhere at different times. We've just been able to really pull together as a team because we have a common goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just about all I can take of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just about all I can take of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' instead of Bill Clinton. 'Christine' is just more formal. She says that's what her mother called her when she got in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977]]></link><description><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worlds best progrss springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092</guid></item></channel></rss>