<?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[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6943]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judas had given them the slip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judas had given them the slip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44448]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654]]></link><description><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. -Douglas MacArthur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16917]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166]]></link><description><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62777</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[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry weavers   On the other side of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got financial professionals, we've got attorneys, real estate experts. Weston's probably the who's who of resident experts in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got financial professionals, we've got attorneys, real estate experts. Weston's probably the who's who of resident experts in our area, and we're trying to take advantage of that and get everyone involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese public, I mourn for those who perished in battles and lost their lives in the horrors of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item></channel></rss>