<?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[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior I want is one of whom I can say with Thomas of old, "My Lord and my God". It would not suffice for my need that He should be only an heroic brother, man divinely inspired. I owe Him my soul, He fills my whole spiritual horizon, I seek to lose myself in Him that I may find myself eternally in life and love divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After enlightenment, the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22123]]></link><description><![CDATA[After enlightenment, the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only found between neurons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42094]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, it really tests your patience at the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55663]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have signs showing the way, and students also will be available to direct people to the choir room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have signs showing the way, and students also will be available to direct people to the choir room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30923]]></link><description><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30923</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/6936]]></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)  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 2, 2000 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)  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 3, 2000 Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 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)  That concludes the present stage of my argument; but before I can proceed to final deductions, I must return to a difficulty already raised (Rom. 3:1-4). If there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, does all the great past of Israel go for nothing? Do all the promises of Scripture go for nothing? First, let me say how bitterly I regret the exclusion of the Jewish nation as a body from the new life. I would surrender all my Christian privileges if I could find a way to bring them in. But we must recognize facts; and the first fact is that the nation as a whole never was able to claim the promises; from the beginning, there was a process of selection. Of the sons of Abraham, Isaac alone was called; of the sons of Isaac, Jacob only. If we ask why, there is no answer save that God is bound by no natural or historical necessity, but intervenes according to His will. To question that will is as absurd as for the pot to arraign the potter. Then again, while some members of the Hebrew race have always fallen out, always God has declared His purpose ultimately to include others, not members of the Hebrew race--and that is just what is now happening. Now, as I said, I desire nothing more earnestly than that the whole nation should be saved. But the fact is that they have deliberately rejected the chance that was offered them. There is nothing remote or abstruse about the Christian message. It is a very simple thing: acknowledge Jesus as Lord, and believe that He is alive; that is all. And they cannot say that they have never heard the message, for Christ has His witnesses everywhere. It looks, then, as if God had rejected His people, as punishment for their obstinacy. I do not believe it. God's promises cannot go for nothing. In the first place, there has always been, and there still is, a faithful remnant of the Jewish people. And in the second place, as for the main body, their present rejection of the message is only a means in God's Providence for its extension to the Gentiles. The old olive-tree of Israel stands yet; many of its branches have been lopped off, and new branches of wild olive have been engrafted in their place. But God can engraft the lopped branches on again, if it be His will; and I believe it is His will, and that in the end the whole nation will return to Him and inherit the promises. And if the failure of Israel has meant such blessing to the world, how much greater blessing will its ultimate salvation bring! God's purpose, as I said at the beginning (Rom. 1:16), is universal: He has permitted the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike, to fall under sin, only in order that He may finally have mercy on the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike. How profound and unsearchable are His plans! (Rom. 9:1-11:36)  So now I can take up again my main argument. If this is the way of God's dealing with us, what ought to be our response? Can we do less than offer our entire selves to God as a sacrifice of thanksgiving? How will that work out? In a life lived as by members of one single body. Let each perform his part faithfully. Let love rule all your relations one to another, and to those outside, even to your enemies. Do not regard the Emperor as outside the scope of love, but obey his laws and pay his taxes. Yes, and pay all debts to every one. Love is, in fact, the one comprehensive debt of man to man. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you have fulfilled the whole moral law. But be in earnest about things, for the better day is already dawning. (Rom. 12:1-13:14)  I hear you have differences among yourselves about Sabbath-keeping and vegetarianism. Take this matter, then, as an example of what I mean by the application of brotherly love to all conduct. Remember that the Sabbatarian and the anti-Sabbatarian, the vegetarian and the meat-eater, are alike servants of one Master. Give each other credit for the best motives. Do not think of yourself alone; think of your Christian brother, and try to put yourself in his place. If he seems to you a weak-minded, over-scrupulous individual, remember that in any case he is your brother, and that Christ died for him as well as for you, and reverence his conscience. If through your example he should do an act which is harmless in you but sin to him, you have injured his conscience. Is it worth while so to imperil a soul for the sake of your liberty in such external matters? If the other man is weak-minded, and you strong-minded, all the more reason why you should help to bear his burden. Remember, Christ did not please Himself. In a word, Sabbatarian and anti-Sabbatarian, Jew and Gentile, treat one another as Christ has treated you, and God be with you. (Rom. 14:1-15:13)  Well, friends, I hardly think you needed this long exhortation from me. You are intelligent Christians, and well able to give one another good advice. Still, I thought I might venture to remind you of a few points ; for after all, I do feel a measure of responsibility for you, as missionary to the Gentiles. I have now accomplished my mission as far West as the Adriatic. Now I am going to Jerusalem to hand over the relief fund we have raised in Greece. After that I hope to start work in the West, and I propose to set out for Spain and take Rome on my way. Pray for me, that my errand to Jerusalem may be successful, so that I may be free to visit you. (Rom. 15:14-33)  I wish to introduce to you our friend Phoebe. She renders admirable service to our congregation at Cenchrea. Do all you can for her; she deserves it.  Kind regards to Priscilla and Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, and all friends in Rome.   (P.S.--Beware of folk who make mischief. Be wise; be gentle; and all good be with you.)  Timothy, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, and all friends at Corinth send kind regards. (So do I--Tertius, amanuensis!)  Glory be to God!  With all good wishes,  Your brother,  PAUL, Missionary of Jesus Christ.  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 4, 2000  Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round to the sea,   I am lord of the fowl and the brute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that hard to move anything you do on paper to a computer. The fundamental question is whether that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that hard to move anything you do on paper to a computer. The fundamental question is whether that's a really innovative thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55871]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And for tricks that are vain,    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11528</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[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. •George Orwell   The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. •Henri L. Bergson   Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. •Eleanor H. Porter   The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. •Henry Courtney   A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. •Leonardo Da Vinci   A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. •Carolyn Wells   Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. •S. Dubay   A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. •Winston Churchill   The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. •Sigmund Freud   A feeble body weakens the mind. •Jean Jacques Rousseau   Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. •Buckminster Fuller   A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. •Anthony Trollope   We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. •Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. •Jean de LaBruyere   Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. •Napoleon Hill   A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. •Martin Luther King, Jr.   A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. •Nicholas Hilliard  A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. •Eugene Ionesco   Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. •Maxwell Maltz  Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. •Source Unknown   The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. •Michel de Montaigne  If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. •Lyall Watson  Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. •Elbert Hubbard  The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. •Colin Wilson   Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico that long ago and eventually came up into the American Southwest (4,000 years ago).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31732]]></link><description><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Ward area in general, if you can't find a parking spot in the parking area for the center, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37662]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Ward area in general, if you can't find a parking spot in the parking area for the center, you're gonna be walking a long way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: that they should correct in mercy whatever they can; that what they cannot, they should patiently bear, and affectionately lament, till God either reform and correct it, or, at the harvest, root up the tares and sift out the chaff. All pious persons should study to fortify themselves with these counsels, lest, while they consider themselves as valiant and strenuous defenders of righteousness, they depart from the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the only Kingdom of righteousness. For since it is the will of God that the communion of his church should be maintained in this external society, those who, from an aversion of wicked men, destroy the token of that society, enter on a course in which they are in great danger of falling from the communion of the saints.   .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the 'King' title,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item></channel></rss>