<?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[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a common misperception that has perpetuated over time that you must be an art or writing major, but this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55294]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the Golden League has existed for many years now but this is the year when I can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the Golden League has existed for many years now but this is the year when I can do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. [Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas  Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53338]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39722]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware   What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65771]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presumably there would be facts and documents of Intel that it does not necessarily want to broadcast to the public, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presumably there would be facts and documents of Intel that it does not necessarily want to broadcast to the public,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853]]></link><description><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come and rather than hear about a solution, they can see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold War, with war in the offing and no certainty about the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the heavy road.    The night was dark and stormy,     But blithe of heart were they,      For shining in the distance       The lights of London lay.        O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;         What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. More mankind quotes coming soon. If you have a quote or proverb about mankind, please use the "Submit a Quote" form below to have your mankind quote reviewed by an editor. Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -John Donne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152]]></link><description><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been hearing from all of the coaches that I go in spurts and stops, so tonight I got it in my head to just dominate the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28632]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season you couldn't call up a guy like him. He's close. He's close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102</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><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity forbids thee to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity forbids thee to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14196</guid></item></channel></rss>