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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song on its mighty pinions Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song on its mighty pinions Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on this condition - do not build itBy the sea where I was born,I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested to see the positive results of the chairman's efforts in doing just that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945</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[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437]]></link><description><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57177]]></link><description><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love none. We love, Fool, for the good we do,  Not that which unto us is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully understand the position in which the networks found themselves due to my very painful situation. In the interest of my family, my friends and my many supporters, I step aside with deep humility and seek to reconstruct my personal and professional life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what they saw there. They were prophets, not scribes: for the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen, there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes; but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a Scrooge mentality, but they're putting it into a different form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966</guid></item></channel></rss>