<?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[A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weening is not measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weening is not measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest you stumble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest you stumble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54616]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56796]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58947]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16786]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! -King Richard II. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47973]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a solid 60 minutes and that's important for us right now. We haven't done that all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a solid 60 minutes and that's important for us right now. We haven't done that all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars and fuel? ... As chairman of the House Environment Committee, I heard from all sides of this debate. My conclusion: Incentives to reduce pollution are better than forcing motorists to live with a de facto car tax which won't make cleaner air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32949]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the government brought to this court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  This is Paul's meaning. The state of slavery described in Romans 7 is a slavery to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  This is Paul's meaning. The state of slavery described in Romans 7 is a slavery to wrong desires; not merely to "flesh" in the abstract, as implying our material nature and environment, but to the "mind of the flesh" -- the lower nature and environment made a part of one's conscious self. What the Law could not do, God has done by the gift of the Spirit of Christ: He has given the victory to the higher self. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." (II Cor. 3:17) "The Law of the Spirit -- the law of a life in communion with Christ Jesus -- has made me free from the law of sin and death." (Rom. 8:2) Whereas life was a hopeless struggle, it now becomes a struggle in which the handicap is removed, and victory already secured in principle, because God has come into the life. The Law was external; it was the taskmaster set over against the troubled and fettered will of man. The Spirit is within, the mind of the Spirit is the mind of the man himself, and from within works out a growing perfection of life which satisfies the real longing of the soul. In the full sense freedom is still an object of hope; but the liberty already attained makes possible the building up of a Christian morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30671]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found in his increasing agony of effort a token of divine approval. Not along this track lies the path of moral progress. Christianity says: face the evil once for all, and disown it. Then quiet the spirit in the presence of God. Let His perfections fill the field of vision. In particular, let the concrete embodiment of the goodness of God in Christ attract and absorb the gaze of the soul. Here is the righteousness, not as a fixed and abstract ideal, but in a living human person. The righteousness of Christ is a real achievement of God's own Spirit in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times is really a testament to the kids. These four seniors have been together playing for a long time, and I was really hoping to let them share in a 20-0 season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467</guid></item></channel></rss>