<?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[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[Life ain't all beer and skittles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854]]></link><description><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies are so stimulating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies are so stimulating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What price Glory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What price Glory?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,   And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys    Of vanished springs, like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,  Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they dont, theres no point of loving. So if you cant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63069]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they dont, theres no point of loving. So if you cant afford to be honest, stay single]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45963]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7826]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion? It is said that he had a vision -- saw a cross in the sky with the inscription, "In this sign shalt thou conquer." He accepted the new faith promptly, because he thought it would defeat his enemies for him. That is man's Christianity, a means to earthly triumph. And in our present crisis we are appealing to it to defeat the Russians for us. We hear of the life-and-death struggle between Christianity and Communism, the necessity of "keeping God alive as a social force" -- as if our Lord could not survive a Soviet victory! It is a poor sort of faith that imagines Christ defeated by anything men can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41788]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23566]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,   And over it softly her warm ear lays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49061</guid></item></channel></rss>