<?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[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41264]]></link><description><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, I will never appeal for money for the mission of God in this world. This is a degradation of God and of ourselves, which has pauperized us in every way over the centuries. God has no need, and if the mission is God's, then we do not ask for help to give God a boost; therefore we do not appeal for funds. We allow people to take a share in God's work, and this is a very different thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37413]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a (missed assignment). The guy was holding him, man, but you can't wait on a ref to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35239]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a (missed assignment). The guy was holding him, man, but you can't wait on a ref to make the play. The cat safety didn't get outside. He failed, we all failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives quietness at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52811]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives quietness at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34358]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in condition. I was never taken out of a game because I was weak. I was taken out because I was getting hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no weapons of mass destruction and the whole world knows that but Bush wants to impose his hegemony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no weapons of mass destruction and the whole world knows that but Bush wants to impose his hegemony on the world and subject Iraq to his rule,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51336]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning;  But a rainbow at night   Is the Shepherd's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning;  But a rainbow at night   Is the Shepherd's delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072]]></link><description><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. -Garrison Keillor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God's good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding brings control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding brings control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45782]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   Will know the reason why!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. We don't want to get beat by Michigan any time. To go up there and play like that just hurts a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of things,   Let Nature be your teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can then transition up here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</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[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item></channel></rss>