<?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[Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go in there and prepare and play the best you can and play hard, and it'd be big for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41877]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go in there and prepare and play the best you can and play hard, and it'd be big for the school, our fans, our families, the community, to go in and beat a No. 1 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but what astonishes is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but what astonishes is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but not much about the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day -- He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion; knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment!); knew, when they were crying, Hosanna!, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, "Crucify Him!", and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge -- how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19862</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[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is above the law, and no man is below it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14119]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is above the law, and no man is below it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55944]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54466]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A golden goblet gave.    [Ger., Es war ein Konig in Tule     Gar treu bis an das Grab,      Dem sterbend seine Buhle       Einen gold'nen Becher gab.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never forgive those who make us blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never forgive those who make us blush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40816]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16537]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595]]></link><description><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595</guid></item></channel></rss>