<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44454]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42147]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just from Mount Sinai ? I think are going to represent Division II at the tournament in a very positive fashion. We have some very tough kids and I think we're going to do well in the states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a sure card. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a sure card.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57153</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That scared a lot of people and they sold their units cheaply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That scared a lot of people and they sold their units cheaply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our ignorance brings us closer to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44236]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is tailor-made to live out that armchair quarterback life. You get to pick the players. It's ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, so I wanted to out-run them. I told him to put it up there so I could make a play and he did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36764]]></link><description><![CDATA[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years and sins are always more than owned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years and sins are always more than owned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what a reporter looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what a reporter looked like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42010</guid></item></channel></rss>