<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66581]]></link><description><![CDATA[A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be on live TV with the prime minister. I want to explain what we think about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be on live TV with the prime minister. I want to explain what we think about the violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28525</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/26330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that we get twice a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses,  When pleasant sights salute the eyes  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses,  When pleasant sights salute the eyes   And pleasant scents the noses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31708]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according to plan. We're aiming to be somewhere in the top six and we're on target. We had a small spin at a junction on the first stage that gave away a few seconds but apart from that we've had no issues. The roads are in good condition, there's a good solid base and I'm enjoying my driving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All the mountain-prisoned rivers,    And thy great heart beats and quivers,     To revive the days that were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports anytime soon. We've had very warm weather this winter and have built gasoline supplies despite refiners operating at reduced rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51640]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item></channel></rss>