<?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[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57540]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</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[Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9430]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that'swhat's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21607]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that'swhat's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance twinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to challenge. Finding the balance is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43076]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, simple assistance in trifling, external matters. There is a multitude of these things wherever people live together. Nobody is too good for the meanest service...   We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps -- reading the Bible. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised athwart our path to show us that not our way, but God's way must be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31690]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301</guid></item></channel></rss>