<?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[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65795</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[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts it, written by Christ's own hand, showing those round about you what things Christ can do. We are to go into the world and so to live our ordinary lives that, all unconsciously to us, those among whom we move will look at us again, and will begin to say, You know I used to doubt if there was much in Christianity save talk. But I have revised my opinion. There's So-and-so (that's you, you understand), that is a man in whom the thing is obviously working out. He used to be so touchy, so opinionative, so mean and shabby in his views, so dully ordinary. Yet now, undoubtedly, the man has won to self-control and a large generous mind, and -- yea, I know it's a queer thing to say -- but he has won to something more, something that somehow (though he never speaks about those things) makes you remember Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean "to bring into a spacious environment", "to be at one's ease", "to be free to develop". "Salvation" can be seen then as the new life in Christ, in which we are to be "free to develop" into Christ-like people. For this maturing to take place, there needs to be a breaking down of barriers, a breaking up of the soil of our personalities, and a healing of inner wounds and hurts. The soil is softened, the clay becomes malleable through the experience of the tender love of God and the accepting, non-judgmental love of Christians. We cannot be beaten into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've tried to evaluate performance rather than wins and losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22221]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The application has been withdrawn but that still does not take care of everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The application has been withdrawn but that still does not take care of everything,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is that a money issue, it's a space issue. We may have to buy another (mobile classroom). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is that a money issue, it's a space issue. We may have to buy another (mobile classroom).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, one time a year, to assist those in need across Idaho.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to shoot the ball pretty well from the field. Shooting 47 percent has got to be our season high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61022]]></link><description><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is supposed to be great. They say it's going to be the nicest day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is supposed to be great. They say it's going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been talking about a garage sale and we talked about what we could send them, ... Then we thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been talking about a garage sale and we talked about what we could send them, ... Then we thought why not have a garage sale and just send them the money, it would be faster and they could buy whatever they really need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,   Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55233</guid></item></channel></rss>