<?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[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear is to heed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50408]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear is to heed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   The rights he held of yore.    Strong and firm his grasp will be--     Keeping the ancient flag unfurled      To fling its message on the watchful world:       For king, for right, for liberty.        [Fr., Apres des siecles d'esclavage,         Le Belge sortant du tombeau,          A reconquis par son courage,           Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau,            Et ta main souveraine et fiere,             Peuple desormais indompte,              Grava sur ta vieille banniere,               Le Roi, la loi, la liberte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor who was there (Iraq) who can help me out or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41065]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be right back here, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible to industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible to industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would take to create more equitable and healthier communities in New Orleans and throughout the affected area,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51181]]></link><description><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the real East Providence team. A couple bounces here or there, and things could have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My immediate reaction was that our job had just increased by two or three years, but that the samples were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31070]]></link><description><![CDATA[My immediate reaction was that our job had just increased by two or three years, but that the samples were still there. A 200 miles-per-hour crash isn't going to dislodge solar wind atoms that are buried in the collectors. It's going to take longer and people are going to have to work harder...but the samples are still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</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[Tasty Wednesday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3436</guid></item></channel></rss>