<?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[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa to the Caucususand statetheir eternalallegianceto the Creator Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, different golf course. [It's] another opportunity to play against the best, so it should be a good week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day;  For he that runs may fight again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50943]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day;  For he that runs may fight again,   Which he can never do that's slain.    Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;     She drops her arms, to gain the field:      Secures her conquest by her flight:       And triumphs when she seems to yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28164]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51750]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. "We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) into a state of death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the splendor of the Father, we too might walk in the newness which belongs to (real) life." To the rite as such Paul did not attach overwhelming importance. "Christ", he says, "did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel."  Paul recognized in the idea a most suggestive figure for the change wrought by faith in Christ. He found it necessary to guard against the crude sacramentalism which found in the mere physical process, as such, the actual impartation of new life, quite apart from anything taking place in the realm of inward experience. The Israelites in the wilderness ... received baptism in the Red Sea and in the cloud which overshadowed them; and yet they were disobedient, "the majority of them God did not choose," and they perished miserably. The inference is plain. No sacramental act achieves anything unless it is an outward symbol of what really happens inwardly in experience. The test of that is the reality of the new life as exhibited in its ethical consequences. "How can we who are dead to sin live any longer in sin?" If baptism is a real dying and rising again, then it is indeed a profound revolution in the personal life, a revolution which is simply bound to show itself in a new moral character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and He does for us what He promised; and the thing works out. To our amazement, it works out. And then we settle down. We have had our own first-hand and irrefutable experience. But, instead of opening the windows to the glory of the sunshine so evidently there, instead of being incited to a hugeness of faith by what Christ has already done for us, we can't believe that there can be anything more, or that even He can work, for us, anything better. That first foretaste satisfies us. And so we camp for life out on the confines of the Kingdom, and never press on to inherit what is there and meant for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36574]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than I can see, Mother! In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, What is it?' The young Mole said, It is a pebble. His Mother exclaimed: My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20142]]></link><description><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12983]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. You need to be able to adjust your set and be flexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28319]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item></channel></rss>