<?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[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond   Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28741]]></link><description><![CDATA[If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to safeguard its interests (in Chad), it's making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,   Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,  We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two,   Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach has said, 'Take something away from each race and put it in your toolbox.' By the Olympic race, the toolbox should be overflowing and it is getting there right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   Met to vote that autumn's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME The following abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans aims at presenting in a plain way the continuous sequence of the argument, while suggesting the free epistolary form of the original: My DEAR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS OF ROME,  Wherever I go I hear of your faith, and I thank God for it. It is a part of my daily prayers that I may be permitted to visit you. I believe such a visit would do you good, and I am sure it would do me good. In fact, I have tried again and again to get to Rome, but hitherto something has always turned up to prevent me. I shall not feel that my work as missionary to the Gentiles is complete until I have preached in Rome. My mission is a universal one, knowing no bounds of race or culture--naturally, since my message is a universal one. It is a message of God's righteousness, revealed to men on a basis of faith. (Rom. 1:1-17)  Apart from this, there is nothing to be seen in the world of today but the Nemesis of sin. Take the pagan world: all men have a knowledge of God by natural religion; but the pagan world has deliberately turned its back upon this knowledge, and, for all its boasted philosophy, has degraded religion into idolatry. The natural consequence is a moral perversity horrible to contemplate. (Rom. 1:18-32)  But you, my Jewish friend, need not dwell with complacency upon the sins of the pagan world. You are guilty yourself. Do not mistake God's patience with His people for indulgence. His judgments are impartial. Knowledge or ignorance of the Law of Moses makes no difference here. The pagans have God's law written in their conscience. If they obey it, well; if not, they stand condemned. And as for you--you call yourself a Jew and pride yourself on the Law. But have you kept all its precepts? You are circumcised and so forth: that goes for nothing; God looks at the inner life of motive and affection. An honest pagan is better than a bad Jew in His sight. I do not mean to say there is no advantage in being a Jew: of this more presently ; but read your Bible and take to yourself the hard words of the prophets--spoken, remember, not to heathens, but to people who knew the Law, just as you do. No, Jew and pagan, we are in the same case. No one can stand right before God on the basis of what he has actually done. Law only serves to bring consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 2:1-3:20)  But now, Law apart, we have a revelation of God's righteousness, as I was saying (Rom. 1:17). It comes by faith, the faith of Jesus Christ; and it comes to every one, Jew or Gentile, who has faith. We have all sinned, and all of us can be made to stand right with God. That is a free gift to us, due to His graciousness. We are emancipated in Christ Jesus, who is God's appointed means of dealing with sin--a means operating by the devotion of His life, and by faith on our part. It is thus that God, having passed over sins committed in the old days when He held His hand, demonstrates His righteousness in the world of to-day; i.e., it is thus that He both shows Himself righteous, and makes those stand right before Him who have faith in Jesus Christ. No room for boasting here! No distinction of Jew and Gentile here! (Rom. 3:21-31)  But what about Abraham? you will say. Did not he win God's graciousness by what he did? Not at all. Read your Bible, and you will find that the promise was given to him before he was circumcised; and the Bible expressly says that "he had faith in God, and that counted for righteousness." The same principle applies to us all. (Rom. 4:1-25)  To return to the point, then, we stand right with God on the ground of faith, and we are at peace with Him, come what may. God's love floods our whole being--a love shown in the fact that Christ died for us, not because we were good people for whom anyone might die, but actually while we were sinners. He died, not for His friends, but for His enemies. Very well then, if while we were enemies Christ died for us, surely He will save us now that we are friends! If He reconciled us to God by dying for us, surely He will save us by living for us, and in us. There is something to boast about! (Rom. 5:1-11)  Christ died and lives for us all, I say. But, you ask, how can the life and death of one individual have consequences for so many? You believe that we all suffer for Adam's sin; and if so, why should we not all profit by Christ's righteousness? Of course there is really no comparison between the power of evil to propagate itself, and the power of good to win the victory, for that is a matter of God's graciousness. However, you see my point : one man sinned--a whole race suffers for it; one Man lived righteously--a whole race wins life by it. But what about Law? you say. Law only came in by the way, to intensify the consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 5:12-21) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33466]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are taking or will take on greater responsibilities as safety net providers, and to what degree their focus is on attracting the healthiest of Medicaid patients, leaving the sickest and costliest patients to the care of the remaining public or major safety net hospitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37855]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right who thinks right; only he thinks right who believes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44098]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37975]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045</guid></item></channel></rss>