<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26974]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ugly, and is not lame,   But really a handsome and charming man.    A man in the prime of life is the devil,     Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;      A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,       He talks quite glibly of church and state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524]]></link><description><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103]]></link><description><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet   Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51502</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19662]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the world you are just one persone, but to one person you could mean the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53392]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the world you are just one persone, but to one person you could mean the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, the current amount of economic growth should lead to inflation. But if you talk to companies, it's not happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50282</guid></item></channel></rss>