<?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[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60066]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God has granted grace    To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,     To lift the latch, and force the way:      And better had they ne'er been born,       Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have to be watchful of the potential harm their negligence can do to the civilians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;   So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.   - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers   Down path that were sweet with perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64176]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave you to be lost in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed in winning the support of their fellow citizens and converting them to the endorsement of policies that bring and preserve prosperity, the cause of mankind and civilization is hopeless. There is no other means to safeguard a propitious development of human affairs than to make the masses of inferior people adopt the ideas of the elite. This has to be achieved by convincing them. It cannot be accomplished by a despotic regime that instead of enlightening the masses beats them into submission. In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men;  The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then   The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38822]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion, again, as he has all year long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion, again, as he has all year long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item></channel></rss>