<?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[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</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[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26236]]></link><description><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would thick my blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la infamia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is still not pricing in enough Fed tightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is still not pricing in enough Fed tightening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12148]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28248</guid></item></channel></rss>