<?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[As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14044]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34980</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[Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the recognition program is a valuable way of recognizing contributions from individuals whether they're teacher or administrators. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the recognition program is a valuable way of recognizing contributions from individuals whether they're teacher or administrators. It's also a way of us informing the community ... I think it's also a way of learning from our own peers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180]]></link><description><![CDATA[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His will, may come some day to know the teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some followers of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannnot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and Man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20721]]></link><description><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess what? Lee Harris' place is homes now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess what? Lee Harris' place is homes now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651</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[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268</guid></item></channel></rss>