<?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[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22133]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13840]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific war and occupation by America. The world is beginning to speak with one voice. We want that democracy in Iraq to succeed, and we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power and that power is America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28389]]></link><description><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life like an empty dream flits by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life like an empty dream flits by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10289]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64220]]></link><description><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072]]></link><description><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is high-maintenance, but when it's time to put it all together, it's a devil-may-care attitude to create the finished look. She's not satisfied with one style and likes to keep her court guessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A am realistic-I expect miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A am realistic-I expect miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ready any time, any place, anywhere. This is the last thing I wanted to be here tonight telling you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ready any time, any place, anywhere. This is the last thing I wanted to be here tonight telling you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled thislight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but in our judgment they're also necessary if the airline is going to survive. If there's an industry or business that's in worse shape than the airline industry, I don't know what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64847]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin  The friend of my enemy is my enemy. •Anonymous   With friends like this, who needs enemies? •Henny Youngman   It is impossible for one person to know another so well that he can dispense with belief. •Friedrich Durrenmatt   The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. •Aesop   The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. •Sam Levenson  It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. •William Blake  He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. •Eddie Cantor  You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. •Eric Hoffer  I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. •Bette Davis  It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. •Sally Kempton  We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. •Ricther  Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work. •Anonymous  Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop   The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing   You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad   Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson   I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin   A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian   I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding   Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones   Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy   Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King   Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld   There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore   He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid   Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb   Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti   Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson   Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner   One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift   In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one will check their e-mail boxes, or junkers will know no one is reading their e-mail. Either way, the message is not being delivered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of Christianity, the unity of Christians could be easily realized. But unfortunately this has not proved true, though we can consider it fortunate indeed that, as this inability to unify proves, the letter of the Bible cannot really replace the living Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is the expression of the life and work of God, and since life is greater than its expression, it cannot be expressed completely in any logical or theological form. Therefore, the Bible itself cannot escape being understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the wisdom of God it is impossible in practice to make the Scriptures the end or final authority to those who live in fellowship with the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507</guid></item></channel></rss>