<?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[They have jumped the gun. I'm sure on reflection they will regret they have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33845]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have jumped the gun. I'm sure on reflection they will regret they have done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes on high, but lean upon the sand; and the earth will dissolve, and we shall fall while looking at the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that credit is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that credit is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;  To murder thousands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43407]]></link><description><![CDATA[One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;  To murder thousands takes a specious name,   War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57327]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39221]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</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[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26780]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40927]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've tried to evaluate performance rather than wins and losses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal and this race ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32432]]></link><description><![CDATA[See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal and this race is about conservative issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't permitted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24565]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63843]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452</guid></item></channel></rss>