<?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[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[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of extra outs, meaning errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531</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[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thick on the woodland floor Gay company shall be,  Primrose and Hyacinth   And frail Anemone,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thick on the woodland floor Gay company shall be,  Primrose and Hyacinth   And frail Anemone,    Perennial Strawberry-bloom,     Woodsorrel's pencilled veil,      Dishevel'd Willow-weed       And Orchis purple and pale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain that the Scripture reading is often too long for him, and that much therein he does not understand. To this it must be said that, for the mature Christian, every Scripture reading will be "too long", even the shortest one, [for] the Scripture is a whole, and every word, every sentence, possesses such multiple relationships with the whole that it is impossible always to keep the whole in view when listening to details. It becomes apparent, therefore, that the whole of Scripture, and hence every passage in it as well, far surpasses our understanding. It is good for us to be daily reminded of this fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043]]></link><description><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is an incredible athlete. I'm honored to have the opportunity to coach her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his dedication to the program, and he really enjoys working with the boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles and tactics while conducting illegal activity in border areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now his company has grown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40533]]></link><description><![CDATA[He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now his company has grown and all the employees also are comedians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43291]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum  Non civium ardor prava jubentium,   Non vultus instantis tyranni,    Mente quatit solida.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is neither male nor female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is neither male nor female.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile   That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   Smote with reed by striking shattered,    Face with spittle vilely smeared!     Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,      Marred by fouling stains and homely,       Changed as to its blooming color,        All now turned to deathly pallor,         Making heavenly hosts affeared!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he or she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he or she wants in the appropriate areas of the casino. There is an entire generation that has grown up with mobile devices. People like to do what they want on their own terms. That's what mobile gaming allows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item></channel></rss>