<?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[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9137]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To de-gnome a garden, grab the gnome by the ankles and swing it around your head, and then throw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the deep moon-rise   That flowed over Groton Height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60652]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54686]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</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[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But for my hand, as unattempted yet,   Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.    Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail     And say there is no sin but to be rich;      And being rich, my virtue then shall be       To say there is no vice but beggary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17904]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65169]]></link><description><![CDATA[First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54829]]></link><description><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29287]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The old prophets, when they would describe things emphatically, did not only draw parables from things which offered themselves, as from the rent of a garment, ... from the vessels of a potter, ... but also, when such objects were wanting, they supplied them by their own actions, as by rending a garment, ... by shooting, ... etc. By such types the prophets loved to speak. And Christ, being endued with a nobler prophet spirit than the rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by His own actions -- [which would have been] less grave and decent -- but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves. On occasion of the harvest approaching, He admonishes His disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest. Seeing the lilies of the field, He admonishes His disciples about clothing. In allusion to the present season of fruits, He admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He bids His disciples, "learn a parable from the fig-tree".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9770]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item></channel></rss>