<?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[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady said,   "Saints cannot taste in heaven."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27700]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well the busy whisper, circling round,   Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61226]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vibrations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vibrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21087]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring,   So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55887]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have enough equity going into this are much more insulated and can continue on with their projects. Those who were reaching quite a bit could be in a bind now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances are valid reasons for concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines are not reliable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   In wonder, love and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748</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[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like there's a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because he's a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like there's a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because he's a big kid, got a great arm and he runs the offense that we're going to be using.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is that people don't see these diseases and think they no longer exist. These viruses and diseases are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is that people don't see these diseases and think they no longer exist. These viruses and diseases are still circulating around the world and are just a plane ride away, and they will return if we don't keep our vaccination rates up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32276</guid></item></channel></rss>