<?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[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55335]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--   Fill all the Glasses there; for why    Should every Creature Drink but I?     Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59131]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not budge   And stealing will continue stealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18755]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997]]></link><description><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began serving as coordinator in 2000, and Emma's essay was one of the best I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover quicker than us coaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25007]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who needapproval the least get the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21294]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who needapproval the least get the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62073</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[Is there chicken in chick peas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428]]></link><description><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel more at home and more confident with those guys here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33541]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel more at home and more confident with those guys here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19094]]></link><description><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the world be past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how much I play, I want to do a better job of helping change that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20495</guid></item></channel></rss>