<?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[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13688]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56167]]></link><description><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before,   And closes from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not in favor of it if they're vague about what they are going to do with the property. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not in favor of it if they're vague about what they are going to do with the property. Without a business plan I don't think it's wise to jump into a purchase like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME (This abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans is continued from yesterday)  Now I come to a difficulty. I have heard people say, "If human sin gives play to God's graciousness, let us go on sinning to give Him a better chance. Why not do evil that good may come?" (Rom. 3:8) What nonsense! To be saved through Christ is to be a dead man so far as sin is concerned. Think of the symbolism of Baptism. You go down into the water: that is like being buried with Christ. You come up out of the water: that is like rising with Christ from the tomb. It means, therefore, a new life, a life which comes by union with the living Christ. You will admit that, once a man is dead, there is no more claim against him for any wrong he may have committed. He is like a slave set free from all claims on the part of his late master. Think, then, of yourselves as dead. When you remember the death of Christ, think that you--i.e., your old bad selves--were crucified with Him. And when you remember His resurrection, think of yourselves as living with Him, a new life. And above all, bear in mind that Christ, once risen, does not die again: and so you, living the new life in Him, need not die again. I mean, the sin that once dominated you need not any longer control you; do not let it! You are freed slaves; do not sell yourselves into slavery again. Or, if you like to put it so, you are now slaves, not of Sin, but of Righteousness (a very crude way of putting it, but I want to help you out). Just as once you were the property of Sin, and all your faculties were instruments of wrong, so now you are the property of Righteousness, and every faculty you have must be an instrument of right. Freed from sin, you are slaves of God; that is what I mean. The wages your old master paid was death. Your new Master makes you a present of life. (Rom. 6:1-23)  Or take another illustration. You know that by law a woman is bound to her husband while he lives; when he is dead she is free; she can marry again if she likes and the law has no claim against her. So you may think of yourselves as having been married to Sin, or to Law. Death has now released you from that marriage bond, though here the illustration halts, for it is Christ's death that has freed you! Well, anyhow, you are free--free, shall I say, to marry Christ. You had a numerous progeny of evil deeds by your first marriage; you must now produce an offspring of good deeds to Christ. I mean, of course, you must serve God in Christ's spirit. (Rom. 7:1-6)  Now I admit that all this sounds as though I identified law with sin. That is not my meaning. But surely it is clear that the function of law is to bring consciousness of sin; e.g., I should never have known what covetousness was but that the law said, "Thou shalt not covet." Such is the perversity of human nature under the dominion of sin that the very prohibition provokes me to covet. There was a time when I knew nothing of Law, and lived my own life. Then Law came, sin awakened in me, and life became death for me. Of course, Law is good, but Sin took advantage of it, to my cost. I am only flesh and blood, and flesh and blood is prone to sin. I can see what is good, and desire it, but I cannot practice it; i.e., my reason recognizes the law, and yet I break it through moral perversity. If you like to put it so, there is one law for my reason, the Law of God, and another for my outward conduct, the law of sin and death. It is like a living man chained to a dead body. It is perfect misery. But, thank God, the chain is broken! The law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ has set me free from the law of sin and death. Christ entered into this human nature of flesh and blood which is under the dominion of Sin. Sin put in its claim to be His master; but Christ won His case; Sin was non-suited, its claim disallowed, and human nature was free. The result is that all the Law stood for of righteousness, holiness, and goodness is fulfilled in those who live by Christ's Spirit. There are two possible forms of human life: there is the life of the lower nature of flesh and blood, of which I have spoken; and there is the life of the spirit. We have Christ's Spirit, and so we can live the life of the spirit. And in the end that Spirit will give new life to the whole human organism. (Rom. 7:7-8:11)  You see, then, that the flesh-and-blood nature has no claim upon us. We belong to the Spirit. Those who are actuated by that Spirit are sons of God. I used a while back the expression, "slaves of God "; but really we are not slaves but sons---sons and heirs of God, like Christ; and when we come into our inheritance, how glorious it will be! (Rom. 8:12-18)  This, however, is still in the future. At the present time the whole universe is in misery, and in its misery it waits for the revelation of God's sons. Now all existence seems futile in its transience; and even we still share creation's pangs. But we have hope; and the ground of that hope is the possession of God's Spirit--in a first installment only, but enough to reckon upon. The fact is that every prayer we utter--yes, even an inarticulate prayer--is the utterance of the Spirit within us. We know that all through God is working with us. His purpose is behind the whole process, and He is on our side. If He gave His Son, we can trust Him to give us everything else. He loves us, and nothing in the world or out of it can separate us from His love. (Rom. 8:18-39) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8209]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights That flash in the girdle of the year so fair When thou wast born a man -- because alway  Thou wast and art a man through all the flights  Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey with people who play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49988]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46071</guid></item></channel></rss>