<?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[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people are behind them and support them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within   A mother's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36631]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many may have been able to get out on their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36631</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[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If blue collar jobs are leavingand white collar jobs are outsourcedwhat color collar jobs are left? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If blue collar jobs are leavingand white collar jobs are outsourcedwhat color collar jobs are left?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is thought in cold storage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is thought in cold storage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the end try the man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the end try the man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in Game 4, freshman Balee Cox served four consecutive points. That shifted the momentum, gave us back the lead and we finished it out from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item></channel></rss>